Rouge-Echo Station (Life on an Island in the sun)

The second coming

2010-08-04T09:15:00.000-07:00

It has been quite awhile since, I last posted. Like a true procrastinator I have a list of perfectly good reasons for not posting :D.

The hectic preparations for my final year
Working on my final year project
Studying for exams etc....

the list goes on and on, the simple truth I was just too lazy and completely devoid of the drive to write blog posts (Most of my drive went into fleshing out my lengthy long winding project report with the C*** necessary to impress my markers and garner marks necessary to pass).

To deviate slightly lets all be honest with ourselves most undergraduate reports being full of C*** is the rule not the exception. Although those of us who write the reports, like to pretend that we have made a great contribution to the human knowledge pool and made a bold difference like Archimedes or Plato. The truth is most of the reports end up gathering dust on a shelf in a library , only to be opened by other final year students looking to rip off the words (paraphrase XD) written by you (which you also in all probability ripped off from some one else) to make up for time lost fooling around instead of writing their own thesis. I like to call this "Paraphrasingtitis" or better known as the " Circle of report cribbing".

Enough with my ramblings about report writing. I have missed blogging, my experiences over the past year the late nights at college, the antics of lecturers , and last minute rushing to finish assignment etc... would have made quite interesting posts. In the end with all the anxiety of my final year, I can safely say I walk away with some funny and good memories with my best friends from college . Alas all good things must come to an end, all of us graduated I actually did much better than I expected. Sad as I was about not seeing my friends, I looked forward to starting my career and my climb to the top as it were. I have learned that plans are good for the 5 seconds before reality sets in, so your best option is to roll with it.

I am happy to say that I found employment , still getting a bead on what I need to do. I will make it work though. I really hope to spend more time blogging, lots to talk about, job , politics, reminiscing etc....

A Year gone by

2009-03-02T19:29:00.000-08:00

Its quite clear that I cant stick to a routine , its been nearly a year since I posted anything. I would love to say that I was so busy with worldly affairs that I did not have even a single nano second to devote to this. That would be a bold faced lie. It was more a case of being to lazy and distracted and suffering from writers block . Alot has happened over the last 12 months.

I've been interning for 6 months ( an honset to god working man :D) , I've also been in a meaningful relationship for nearly a year ( it suprises me to see myself write that) , life has been pretty good.

The novelty of coming to work has not worn off, it has dimmed but not gone out all together. The experiances I have had are priceless and most of them are the kind that will make lovely stories at dinner parties :)

I know not how long my return to the blogosphere will last, hopefully it'll work out this time , but u never know life is full of suprises

Success with Custom templates

2008-03-04T06:41:00.000-08:00

Finally today in the afternoon I managed to make this template I found work !.. I fixed it up for my test blog and during the week hope to have it up on this blog.. Ok too any ardent bloggers who will shrug and call me a loser.. it might be easy for You but it was tough for me. with blogger going and changing some stuff about template formats.
I felt a great sense of jubilation when the template finally looked like it should today.. Here is the link where I found the template.. http://www.jackbook.com
check it out there are plenty of templates out there and a guide to get you started on setting up and running with the new ones.. I will post a guide of some tips I found while trying to get my template to work.. :) this is my test blog check out the template and let me know what you think..
test blog

Stage craft.

2008-03-02T01:34:00.000-08:00

The reason for 2 week absence was due to the myriad of assignments I had to complete. Sad to say I still have not finished them.. It all comes back down to my being distracted easily..:P.. The IIT talent show Stage Craft 2008 was a blast. With B'n'S on stage and with our brand of comedy on stage it was a roller coaster of fun from start to finish. I was backstage working with the lights and stage managing , it was like being back in school.. had loads of fun.. I want to thank all the back stage crew for being there and helping out.. except for the part where we were swearing over the intercom..

Right now I'm trying to edit this new template and get it too work. So far have'nt been successful with it :(.. will update with new development..

Trawling For templates

2008-02-24T07:54:00.000-08:00

Tired of the same old look of my blog I decided to look around for new templates. Doing a simple google Search just netted me more of the same sort of templates I'm used to seeing. Feeling rather dejected I went to check my Entrecard account and was browsing the categories of blog available and lo and behold I came upon a category on blogging resources. after visiting a few of the blogs there I found some intersting templates that I likes.. I will first test them out and see how it goes :d.. http://blogger-aid.blogspot.com
http://www.jackbook.com
were two of the gold mine of resources that I came across.

The Red Dog : from Kandyg

2008-02-15T07:12:00.000-08:00

Had an interesting lunch date today with a rather special friend of mine . who I was meeting for the first time. So wanting to do something out of the ordinary two of my friends and I went looking for soft toys on Galle road.. As expected this proved easier said than done. But after about half an hour of walking around We found this place called "Kandyg" just past ACBT on the land side. It sells batik stuff but it also has hand made soft toys in the window. I went in expecting that I would walk out with a much lighter wallet :D(hey I know thats a bit lame but hey times are hard :P),.. luck was on my side though. The toy which was a red stuffed dog was only Rs 150/= quite affordable in my thoughts. Well with that in hand I met up with my friend and needless to say she was thrilled with it :).

so next time your in a hurry and need a gift fast I suggest you look this place up.. Its just past ACBT on the land side on the corner of a turn off to duplication road

A corner Food shop at Liberty Plaza

2008-02-14T10:08:00.000-08:00

In my wondering around kollpity I came across this quaint little food place in Liberty Plaza. it was during the lunch after completing my regular tour of my the mobile phone shops , I found my self wanting for a bite to eat but short on cash as usual. I cant remember the name exactly I was actually attracted by the smells that came wafting out of the place. When I walked in the first thing that caught my eye was their specials were all under Rs 200.00 and normal curry and rice was less than Rs 150.00 . in a day and age where the price of items goes up day by day its nice to find a place that u can eat at without loosing half the green thats in your wallet. Eating there is possible but You wouldn't take your better half there. Odering take out is definitely the better option
This joint is on the first floor right near one of the entrances I think opposite natstars. Check it out and let me know..

The circus and the clowns: A look at politics in Sri Lanka

2008-02-11T09:16:00.001-08:00

A circus is nothing without its clowns . Chaps clad in bright and horribly clashing colors running around squirting water and squabbling animatedly using antic that would be considered rude in any other social context, all this is done for the amusement of the audience , so that they can laugh uproariously. This was the image that came into my head recently when I heard to of my friends having a heated argument about the political machinations of the currents regime in our country. Except in this case the audience is 225 dunderheads and their assorted cronies and relations. An earlier post touched on the rot that has set in so I will not get into that again
To expand on my story about my two friends, Both of them are university undergraduates who are analytically minded and well read , they hold opposing views on the current war in the country and what is being done about it, they both believe wholeheartedly in their view point so obviously they are at loggerheads when this topic comes up, the situation is quite tense and in certain cases in it is reminiscent of a nuclear reactor operating in controlled overload state. I do not wish too bring my friends down and in no way do I wish to belittle them so If you read this do not take offense.
My point is both of them get worked up about these issues and might go on to debate the subject into the wee hours of the morning and this same act in all probability will take place all over the country between many different people co workers , family or even the guy You happen to be sitting next to in the bus. So many people talking and getting upset and yet nothing comes of it except that the general public is fractured along these beliefs, and all the while our so called public servants look on with mild amusement at these proceedings. I mean if a majority of our citizens are concerned enough to start an argument about the political situation or the governance of our country why cant they voice they're concerns to those in power, why does it seem like the power brokers who cling to their offices like leeches on a foot do nothing but watch, is it that the clowns are only allowed to perform in the ring and that when they step out of bounds the audience no longer wants to see or listen to them.
20 million souls and counting excluding leeches and company contemplate how we can get by in out lives and spend time debating politics in this country and yet nothing changes in the greater political picture. Office bearers care pretend to care and fill our ears with promises much like the audience egging the clowns on to perform more. If we are more than clowns to them why is it that people must live in fear of expressing ideas, why is it people must fear where their next meal come from, I'm not asking for some utopia where no one has problems . If we are not mere circus performers to them a majority of us would feel that we were part of a productive governance process. We go about our lives being held ransom to the will of a few very much like a clown who must please the audience even if it means that he must rub his face in the mud. Is this what we must accept , is this the meaning of freedom and democracy ???
This clown for one had had enough No longer will I just sit by with my mouth shut No longer will I accept an audience of 225 and their cronies whose collective IQ would not even get one of them into technical college.

Opening My eyes to the world of blogging:

2008-02-09T21:56:00.000-08:00

When I started My blog it was just a whim that kept growing with time.. I never really thought about the world of opportunities that Open up too you when you join the ranks of bloggers out there. I do not profess to be a guru of blogging I have a long way to go before I get there.. But after joining www.slblogs.org . The sheer size and complexity (I use that term loosely blogging is actually very easy but there are a lot of options about what you use it to do) truly started to sink in.
I'm still looking at the tip of the iceburg and already I've learned so much, thats after just 3 days of going through sites and blog I found on slblogs.
Some might think that I'm just excited about making money, I will not say that I'm not enamored by that :P that would be plain untruthful, But the root cause for my excitement is more to do with being able to share my ideas and being able to meet more people who are as expressive if not more expressive than me. If you do read this I would like to hear what you think about this and other posts..

Emerald Isle in peril : 60 years on

2008-02-02T00:43:00.000-08:00

A retreat to simplicity and idyllic island paradise , a place where wonders abound and where kicking back and relaxing is an way of life. This was what our country was and should have been , as we sit at the eve of the dawning of our 60th year of independence and look back can any of us say that we have fulfilled the expectation of our founding fathers who sacrificed so much so that we can could fly our lankan lion high in the sky ?
There was a time when other nations looked to us an example of development and forward thinking , now the heralded shepherd of Asia has become one of the very misguided sheep . A sheep that is so far from the fold that it is slowly and certainly wondering towards the precipice of doom. Some would call me over dramatic and say no there is plenty too be proud off and that everything is not that bad and we should think of the whole context and all that drivel .. to those naysayer i have just one word "NUTZ".
Ok fine the world economy is declining and most nations are growing through bad patch. I'm not going to talk about economics today instead consider the social context we live in.
Thuggery , extortion , corruption and blatant greed runs rampant and unchecked through out the land, in fact one of the great pillars of our country that our fore father gave their lives to form , the parliment is a perfect example of this. Our great and glorious ministers stand and bow before a flag at a parade and then act like common street hooligans in parliament the highest institution in the country, do they think that our country's freedom fighters who wet the earth with their blood would want cretin like them paying homage to them???. From their behavior both within and outside parliament the honorable ministers should are not fit to run let alone stand in on the stage erected by those who really believed in the betterment of sri lanka all those years ago. ranting on about the misguided nature of governance in our island would probably mean I would never finish the is post before I die(more on that later). The governing body aside what off the people who live here have they honored the memory of our forefathers properly and by honour I do not mean hang a flag outside your house every 4th of Feb. DO we value the independence we have do we even understand the cost off it, I think not. If any of the those heroes who thought of independence were walk in to our time, I would put my money on them being disappointed, they risked life and limb to fight for this freedom and now the common folk do not even life one finger to protect it or honor it, how many of the masses who claim to "proud to be sri lankan" try to put a stop to the corruption that has taken hold , How many have stood up and said if 60 years ago a handful of scholars and warriors could stand up to the British raj I too will stand up to those who would usurp and destroy my sovereign nation which I hold dear.
The rot that has set in is affecting everything . society and large is corrupt not only in a monetary sense but also in terms of social values and common decencies. Celebrating 60 years of independence marked by a downward turn in everything our forefathers tried to protect is ironic to say the least.
The Emerald isle is not only about the natural beauty that abounds here. the people of the country have it within each of them the ability to turn it back into its former glory, They can turn it around and make our island home meet the dreams our fore fathers had for it. If we lose the people to the rot then this Emerald will forever lose the brilliance within it.

A blissful escape..

2008-01-31T09:24:00.000-08:00

All of us sooner or later wish that during the course of our day that we could have just one moment of peace , or one moment where there aren't a thousand pressing matters that need your attention , basically were time stands still. I know that may sound a little cliche and unrealistic but it does happen. I for one have experienced moments like these sparingly and lately they been very hard to come by , but today after a long and arduous lecture one phone call made me believe in such moments again. I'm not being mushy here in fact mushiness has nothing to do with it what so ever.
It was more a feeling of pure freedom. The conversation was lively and full of comic relief and maybe something deeper to god knows.. All I know is that no amount of laughing and joking around with my friends has lead to a moments of bliss like this (no offense guys) . It is possible that I might be reading too much into all of this for other reasons :d.

All the ranting above has a point .. irrespective of how you find these small moments of solace and grace the important thing is that you do, all of us can do with more of them. In fact maybe we should set aside time to pursue things that might lead us to these moments. Like a treasure hunt maybe by getting more people involved in the search we can all share in them and live happier more fulfilled lives... Man was made curious to develop , but development should not mean an end to curiosity .

Sun Certified..! Thank the lord

2008-01-28T09:39:00.000-08:00

I think in a previous post I might have discussed the fact that I was planning on doing the SCJP exam last year.. Well I finally sat for it today... And I passed !.. The relief I felt at that Particular moment was so intense its some thing one can understand only through experience . I should admit that the only reason I got around to doing it was because of my moms constant prodding to finish it, I owe her a lot for that .. but she doesn't need to know that :D..

The exam was not extremely tough and with proper and simple preparation you can probably pass with more than 75% but still after I submitted it I felt this tremendous sense of dread that I had flunked but thankfully I got through.. :). My advice for some one doing it is that like all exams a little bit of confidence can take you a long way.. and also you need not be totally into programming or software development to actually do the exam.

The afterglow off passing is fading as I type this and it is quite obvious that I cant sit on my laurels and wait. Even with my degree goiing on simply having Bsc after your name is not enough in todays highly competitive job market, I'm faced with a quandary do I continue java certifications or do I go into some other field of professional certification. Or do I wait for more free time.. each approach has its merits and demerits , figuring them out will not be easy(ahhhh the joy of growing up).
Before signing off if anyone is reading this happens to be thinking of widening their skill set .. go for it dont hold back if you have the chance the time is Now!!..

Starting over

2008-01-09T00:42:00.000-08:00

Life is beautiful but not easy. And nothing is as hard as starting down a new path. I stand now at the beginning of a new semester and wonder what shall I do ?.The last semester was less than stellar and I will need to work harder this year and that means no distractions, easier said than done. people will say that it should not be so. But hey nothing in life is easy :). So this semester a little less hanging around friends and mucking about. If they take it the wrong way well.. NUTs to them. I want this to work so .. it will. I've been a wondered too long i think it is time that I settled down and stuck it out it the dough out.

Sick Day

2007-12-21T09:44:00.001-08:00

Its official I despise tropical fevers.. They are annoying and serve no purpose except to bring you down. It is simply amazing the myriad of forms of this ailment which can be found.. and the fact that all of them can hit you at the same time is something that amazes me no end.. I mean get in line and take a number.. and give a poor guy a break.. As i write this the aches pains my fever left behind serve as a constant reminder of my bout with what ever viral element which entered my system. Ok ok this may sound like a lunatics ravings.. But its been a long 2days. and being in bed was never fun when ur sick..

So my advice next time u think tropical paradise pack enough antibiotics to sink a battleshi

"Thank you for voting" - food for thought

2007-12-02T02:58:00.001-08:00

I was at the lionel wendt on Saturday to witness the newest stage creation by StageFrightandPanic Ltd.. "Thank you for voting". a humorous play about the rise and political career of the politician Chandima PussWeddilla.. It was clear that the play had drawn heavily on the current political circus in our country.. but i shall elaborate further on that later.

the play did'nt really live up too my expectations when considering previous productions by the same theater company. It did have lots of funny lines but the humor was not creative at all. most of the punch lines where painfully obvious and where reused quite often. In a play that went on for a bit too long.. They could have ended it on some high notes earlier on but in dragging the play on lost a bit of the interest and humorous atmosphere they created earlier on. Most of the group I went with did laugh alot but admitted that the humor was not off the standard they expected.
Enough of the negatives .. some positives where definitely the many english phrases and sayings that were warped and presented by Honorable minister Pussweddilla
In truth the play for did effectively capture the political farce that exists in this country I shall not name the factions the play may have portrayed on stage.. But it is safe to say that they left no stoned unturned WINK.
Aside from its shortcomings.. what I liked the most was the message it sends.. to me having such a play shows that the people in this country at least a few of them do believe that whats going in our supposed "paradise isle" is not right and that they will no longer sit back and stay quiet. Even though it was humorously depicted the corruption which is rampant in our state was clearly shown.. If nothing else I think the theater company deserves an award for being brave enough to put this play on the boards..
For me personally it left me happy because it showed me that there are people amongst us who still believe in the freedoms that i too hold dear. So in closing i think it was a worthwhile to watch this play.. and i hope that StageFrightandPanic will come up with a better production along the same lines soon..

The hatching pen

2007-11-30T05:33:00.000-08:00

A wise man once said "You cannot blame the tree of the seed from which it sprung was rotten". this is something people seem to forget. Everyone of us in this country complain about corrupt and power hungry politicians and their seemingly inability too unite, some among us look at this predicament in wonder and try to theorize the reason behind such behavior. After witnessing the farce of an election process which was undertaken to appoint a student governing body for a particular educational institute I think we should cease our armchair reasoning and wake up to the facts. which are that

Our very nexuses of education are the points where this bloodthirsty and seemingly boorish political behavior comes to the fore. I mean if a group of 20 year old students have problems trying 2 elect a governing body , should we expect any better from the nation at large, If the future generation themselves cant handle the concept of power how can we expect any better of those we elect to parliament. Let me make it perfectly clear there is no single wrong doer amongst the above student body, what ever that occured was due to a failure off the collective nothing more nothing less.

If as students our generation can not understand the true importance of power and simply clamour for itso that they might wield it to their advantage without understanding the responsiblities and niceties that go with it. how can we as a nation hope for a better tomorrow. Truthfully I was made part of the proceedings , but I do not think the actions of most involved where correct. Not only did this situation throw in to light the sheer ineptitude of my generation when it comes to power, it also showed how little our generation has progressed in terms of being able to enter into a dialog to sort our the problems that arise between various factions. this inability to have open discussion is dangerous when coupled with the our lack of understanding of power. any hope for lasting peace goes out the window when such a situation arises.

There is no point in laying the blame. But a several questions nag at my consciousness
where did society go wrong?
can we change the future?.... what can we do? .. who do we look towards for guidance?..

The problem is obviously in the hatching pen of society. we must cleanse it or watch our country slide into ruin...
I think I know what I will do.. what will you do ?

The blogger returns

2007-11-02T08:59:00.000-07:00

this marks my third return after a long absence , this time though I will not make promises of being more committed or anything like that .. what can I say .. staying the course and seeing some thing through is something I need to work at . .
BUt I can safely say this though.. I have plenty of material to blog about everything from the happenings at college , the state of the country and most importantly the weirdness of my life.

I cannot say that I was really busy these past few months. I guess I just did'nt have the urge to blog .. in fact I can say that the drive within me to do anything at all for tht matter.

well ryt now I;m off 2 take a long shower and unwind.. traffic on da way home was horrible and well the day was just tiring (it may be just in my mind but that does'nt change the fact that its there :D)

Friends.. or just acquaintances

2007-08-27T22:30:00.000-07:00

Growing up in society you constantly told that making friends is important and you must pick them carefully. So as you go through life you pick up alot of friends and some of them stick with you through your long journey but most fall by the way side. going on to follow their own paths.
Is friendship that important. do they not harm your individual existence. I mean in this country especially after you get into a click of friends they expect you too conform to the group standard. True you became part of the group because you did conform , but times change and so do people right. I say this because I noticed my friends doing the same thing. they want you to do this and that and they have fun but too you its just a lame exercise ..
I understand doing things as a group but it thought groups of friends were suppose to understand each other and relate to each other. So it seems to me that people who call themselves friends but take away from your individuality are not friends but acquaintances.
Maybe in life we never really have friends or maybe we just have a few true friends who we truly relate too. or maybe i'm just anti-social and dysfunctional and have got it all wrong.
What do you think.

island heat

2007-08-27T06:17:00.000-07:00

I dont think the recent weather in my Island home qualifies has a heat wave.. but man it has gotten quite hot.. and with the heat the an assortment of skin irritant and boils seem 2 erupt out of no where. The strange thing is the places these things come up in are so weird and random. i think it maybe payback for all the times I laughed at my friends when they suffered from boils and so on. Anyway itchy scratchy aside. I did enjoy the weekend . spent some time with some of my bro's friends playing board games and noting down some strange behavior in 25 - 26 year olds.
You know how when your small it was always about fighting to stay up late as much as you can .. Well growing does'nt seem to change that except instead of just staying up its about staying up and staying out of the house as long as you can. Over the weekend I came home at around 3 am and felt all aglow inside, I swear I even had a lil spring in my step.. maybe the novelty of this will wear of in time or maybe It was the island getting to me ..

Color hexcodes

2007-08-20T07:34:00.000-07:00

Hey to all you bloggers who want to know particular color codes to use in customizing your blog design heres a good site to check out
http://www.colorhunter.com

it helped me alot ..(pls take note of my new font color.. :D)

any comments about the new font color or comments about my post is appreciated

Motoring Sl style!!!! Honk Honk!

2007-08-20T07:14:00.000-07:00

You don't truly realize how messed up motorists in Sri Lanka are until you get behind the wheel. As a veteran traveler of the preferred public transport system in SL aka Buses I did know that well something was a miss :D. But last Sunday I truly gained a whole new insight in to the matter.
As a new driver (I got my license two months ago, but we all know how strict the driving test in the country is right WINK) I still have much to learn as my father says so often. In a break of tradition my dad decided to let me drive for a longer stretch than normal along the negambo road, Seeing that it was sunday and past 2:00pm i figured "what could go wrong" and prepared my self for nice stroll of a drive...boy was I wrong.
5 mins in to the drive out of no where a three wheeler materializes out of no where and cuts in front of me the innocent driver who was sticking to the speed limit. that miscreant has the gall to show me a certain finger and ask me where I was going(i of course could not frame suitable reply bcoz 1) my father was next to me 2) I was having kittens trying to break and avoid stalling the car). then there was the bus that decide to accelerate when i was trying to turn across the road(that one really made my blood run cold). i could go on foreve about my drive. bUt ultimately I came to several conclusions

drivers in this country have no courtesy or patience to speak of
everyone of them seems to have either not gone for proper instruction or have forgotten everything they were taught
being an obedient driver is a sure fire way to hear people describe your family tree :D
Driving for relaxation is out of the question(I'm going to go for a walk instead)
I need to forget all my rules and just drive an dpray i dont hit anyone :D
next time any one is driving and some idiot pasess you doin nasty hand movements and swearing it might be ME!!!

all in all people I think professionla racers should be trained in Sl coz we do not require any special facilities.. the current roads system coupled with the manic drivers is quite enough :d
to those who do drive happy Driving and Be drive Safe(hope you have Insurance )
And remeber when in doubt of in danger or basically to drive Honk! :D

TIPHow to adjust the width of your blog post

2007-08-17T11:15:00.000-07:00

I am still a novice to blogging and an am still leaning the ropes as it were. I came across this nifty trick that I used on another blog I'm using to display java projects I do for My SCJP certification process(http://tmarajavaescapades.blogspot.com/).In this particular blog the space or width of my blog post was not enough to display the content I uploaded.After doing a Google search I cam across a method of adjusting the CSS template IT is quite straight forward.

Go to your dash board and click on the "Layout" tab and then on the "Template" tab you should then see the CSS template of your blog.. I'm sure you will be familiar with these steps, but in the spirit of trying to be through please bear with me :).
Before you do anything SAVE A COPY OF YOUR TEMPLATE in case of any mishap..
Now in your template sroll thrugh it looking for a section of the code that looks like whats given below

#main-wrapper {
background: $mainBgColor url("http://www.blogblog.com/no897/corner_main.gif") no-repeat right top;
width:600px;
//
}
#main {
margin:0;
padding:15px 20px;
}
#sidebar-wrapper {
background:$sidebarBgColor url("http://www.blogblog.com/no897/corner_sidebar.gif") no-repeat left top;
width:154px;
//
}

in the above coding I've marked to lines in red these two lines set the width of your columns the one which comes under "main wrapper" is the one which controls the width of your blog You are free to set it to any amount so long as the sum of the post width and the side bar width are less than the total blog width

well after that you can experiment an dsee what works for you ..happy blogging people
Before I forget.. i should give credit to peter chen for having the original post on ow to this editing for more info GO TO HIS blog (http://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com)

Technorati

2007-08-15T07:40:00.001-07:00

Technorati Profile

I added myself to technorati:D

been a long time

2007-08-15T06:42:00.000-07:00

I've been away from my blog abouut a month.. and sad too say I cannot blame a busy schedule for keeping me from blogging... I don't really know why .. but I didn't feel driven to do anything about this blog. It all comes down to me not being able to see something through to the end.. without some one holding my nose to it.. it shames me to admit it but I cannot run from it any longer.. Well wallowing in self pity will get me no where..

today was a day spent at home recuperating from all the running around I did the day before, the day before I went with a friend to watch rush hour 3 followed by a couple of rounds of pool with some friends.. it was a fun day although it did drain a lot of my cash reserves.. What can I say life is getting expensive. (I really need to get a job :D)..

A word of advice too those planning an outing with friends, if you can get one of your friends who has a car to bring it along . you can save time that way.
oh and abpout rush hour .. I recommebd the film too all those who want a good laugh ..

The magical 20

2007-07-14T21:56:00.000-07:00

Have you noticed how life starts to fly by as you grow older. This has become increasingly apparent since this is my b'day month. So when the 7th of July did come around It was on me so fast I had forgotten that it was my birthday. But thanks to my friends I could'nt forget it completely with all the wishes that were coming via sms.
Every kid thinks that after you turn 18 that your an adult.. but in fact you are only taken seriously when yu turn 20.. I'm serious when you tell people your 20 you can see the change in their eyes..
TRUTHFULLY though i feel no different. its interesting how no mater how you change in others eyes, in yours you always stay the same. you may feel a lil different but all in all you feel da same.

As for my magical 20's experiance.. It has been a blast so far. with one of my friends trying to break up with her boyfriend, asking me for advice about it too my two nieces who came down.
they are the cutest things I HAVE EVER SEEN .. ok ok so they have me wrapped around their little finger but I dont mind.. sweet things that insisted I take them for a walk about.

I also have passed to my second year in my degree wich was a great relief. thts it for now.

Foss ed 2007

2007-06-27T10:19:00.000-07:00

Over the past two days I was taking part in the FOSS (free open source software) event called FOSS ed .. And man it was an experience .. The event was about implementing open source alternatives which can be used on windows.. I'll not cover the concepts behind all this but anyone interested in the details should check this link out
http://www.foss.lk/events/2007/fossedforwindows
http://www.foss.lk

Anyways the event was the first time I attended aN FOSS event or any open source for That matter.. I should tell you that i grew up with windows and have never used anything else. but after the conference, I am seriously looking at using Linux. God knows they have made me a convert.. I dunno why but open source seems unspeakably cool, I think it has something to do with all the movies I watched has a kid about the computer geeks running around with a box and tht command line open an typing in code to thwart the evil plans of the malicious character in the film. OR maybe its the fact people associate hacking and all with Linix users, This latter parallel is completely off though open sourcers refer to hacking as a clever programming technique and our definition of hacking actually means CRACKING a system which is something they frown upon...
But The topics were'nt that interesting sometimes but the bit on web security and browsers and content management systems was pretty interesting .. and some of the speakers like suchetha and mifan really stood out..
I guess another thing that made the whole thing worth it was the venue.. The HNB tower simply has the best view of the park in colombo.. it just made for a really relaxed atmosphere..

On the whole the topics that were touched upon really opened ones eyes to the bigger picture that we more often than not miss. from the two days I spent I come away with clearer picture of how exactly open source software fits in to the software market and just how far propitiatory software companies collaborate, The interesting thing was I never realised that there where so many opensource alternatives available to be used on non open source platforms.
I'm pretty tired out from the day so I'll give you a more lenghty brakdown of the two days later

I wish to say that all in all FOSS ed was an experiance that was worth it and that these kind of events are jst the ticket to get more people to embrace the open source culture. and I am definitely going for the next FOSS event..

P:S as students we measure goddness by fodd.. and let e just say that the food was good and they kept us well fed :D

Sailing into a storm

2007-06-18T22:08:00.000-07:00

I find myself being tossed around like a ship in a storm. This is not surprising since life is kind of like a journey into the big blue yonder. and like any voyage of note is fraught with danger from storms and reefs, in life some of the storms you encounter are in the image and vein of APHRODITE , or to put it simply the two legged beauties who would steal your soul with a glance ( OK so that seems a bit too much) I'm talking about the girls who come sailing in to your life and throw you off completely. I;m sure every guy has experienced this. These tempest are ungovernable and appear when you least expect it.. I'll not say that they are all bad , but they do mess you up pretty badly if you let them. And more often that not they do not appear as storms but rather as pleasant weather pattersn which will turn into a storm when your not looking. Ofcourse unlike real life storms thet dont feed of low presssure systesmor what not infact we males are the ones who suply what they need to tturn into storms.. I'm talking about all thsoe complex emotions and feeling that come boiling out of us all of a sudden.
There I was quite happy with my self just sailing my ship enjoying the waves and the sun and out of the blue Now I stand 4 feet deep in water being tossed up by the storm that caught me, sadly this time I saw this coming but I had not counted on it being this ferocious, In my arrgonace I thought I could sail through it sadly now I see the folly in my plan. This female has me confused and lost. But not in a completely bad way. What can I say I'm not sure what aI feel all I know is that my ship is getting hit by massive waves cested with anger jealousy and a myriad of other emotions. part of me wants to see the storm thorugh while another part of my mind tells me that I should turn around. Some times I wish I could turn back time and sail around the storm while sometimes I think ot meeting this storm would be a mistake,.. alas you can see the predicamemt of this poor mariner.
I wonder if this happened to Adam when he met Eve??? It would be nice if life was simple and the whole thing between girls and guys was clear and cut.. all I know for sure is that I'm close to drowning IN one sense or the other. I pray for a lil luck to cme my way , because I would be sad tolose what is at the heart of this storm.. sounds hopeless I know but what to you expect from an optimistic and hoplessly romantic poor salior..
MaybeI should talk too the storm

Sorting Life out

2007-06-13T20:57:00.000-07:00

Its been almost a month since I last blogged .. Its the sad story of my life but i keep saying from now on I'll blog regularly but I end up not blogging for ages, I cannot remember when I became a procrastinator , but I think began ome time after my 18th b'day.. But when it began is immatireal the point is that it must end. I am no longer willing to just let my life slide away fom me, I want to be back in control.. The hardest part fo me is admitting that I lost control in the first place. (Takes a deep breath). I do not know who will see this but heres the truth for the lastfew months other than my studie I 've pretty much just floated along like a ship lost at Sea.. anyone looking at this blog will propably realise that. I mean a simple example . my blog content keeps jumping from tech related stuff to my crazy mutterings about life. I think I wuill continue in this vein but mostly I'll stick tothe crazy happenings in my life. I will start a seperate blog that will deal with my experiance in learning ruby and my other adventures in the relam of programming.

Essentially what I'm trying to do here through all this is sort out my plan for life. because I can no longer simply stand by and dream. Nor can i stand stil in because I fear failing top achieve my dreams. What do I WANT TO BE?? i want to be several things some of them connected to each other some not . THE time has come to decide what I want to be, I have not figured it all out but there are several things that I have decided.

I want to program

So I want to learn ruby and java
And be familiar with several programming languages

2. I want to build software solutions
3. Start my own IT Firm and build it into something meaningful
4. This may sound cliche but I would like to change the world for the better

There was a time I was scared to tell people this fearing ridicule.. But now i think laugh if you want but its my dream and my life and I will pursue it come hellfire or frost. Big word I know, B but I believe I have it in me to succeed.. All of us do self belief is the most powerful thing we human beings posses sadly From personal experiance I can tell you its is the last thing we draw upon.
But no longer will I let mysefl be brought down by lack of Self belief.

unmountable_boot_volume quick fix

2007-05-17T06:00:00.000-07:00

after a long time i find my self writing about my latest testing experiance with windows XP 2003.. I know what your thinking what away to start a new blogging cycle. Anyways I'm sure many others have come across this problem in windows .. tou know the blue screen saying system faliure with the words UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. IF you look online you will find various solutions which tell you 2 get to windows recovery console. But i'm sure you may have sometiems come across my problem which was that thesystem kept restarting and it continued looping back to restart . Even inserting trhe windows cd wont work.. The reason beinging that your OS partion has some how become unreadble due to the fact that its file fprmat cannot be read(god kows how that happens)
What you do is this get another hard which is running Windows slave your drive to it boot up windows and then through system tools get to the recovery console and run chkdsk/r in it , your problem should be solved instantly. without any loss of data..

]Hope this helps.

Life in the fast lane

2007-04-01T21:15:00.000-07:00

Life is like a F1 race with an infinite number of laps. fast , dangerous yet strangely enjoyable and thrilling. The problems is once you get caugt up in the fast paced life style yes you have a lot of fun but you lose sight of the important small dyay to day things thta have whole lot more meaning than anythimg you would encounter in the kayalami track of life. There is a saying that "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away" ,
but when you whizzing by at 180 ilife you are going to miss those moments that take your breath away, and then how will you say thta you lived a fullfilling life. Then the only option is that periodically you should slow your life down or try to go through life at a modertae pace so that you stay in tghe race and yet do not miss what is going on around you. Also if you treat life as A f1 race you must constantly concerntrate on the race or you will hit the wall and that will be the end of life itself, does'nt seem worthit to live life ,like that does it.
Life is about the small things ion it as well as the big things, what if at the end of the big race you cannot say even tell what a rose smells like or what feelings a sunset invokes .. it would be as if you lived a half life..
which is why for me I will live life like a quite drive down a country road .. enjoying my surroundings and gathering memeories which will last me a life time. So what if i finisj last in the race , at least I would have enjoyed life and actually ahd moments thta take my breath away :).

The wonderful world of layouts

2007-03-14T22:24:00.000-07:00

Aloha! friends and visitors....
Been busy at college trying to figure out UML and SQL (YES we do some seriously hardcore stuff at uni GRIN) with the semester nearing completion we are rushing around finishing up or trying to finish up coursework.. truthfully some of us have not even started on the given assignments but no worries all will be well after some late night brainstorming sessions at Uni. Anyway I was trying to finish up some tutorials for my database lectures and it was about 1am in the morning I was feeling restless but did'nt feel like doing any thing serious either.. so having nothing better to do i went to my hi5 and was checking out some of my friends profile and comparing their happening profile layouts to my boring one , I decided that my profile had long been neglected enough , I visited some of the sites offering all those flashy texts and funky plugins for hi5 layouts and checked them out, and I'll tell you there are whole heap of them out there.. while trawling through these sites I came across this particular website that offered to generate you own custom profile , which ws interesting seeing that some of the premade ones on offer are already used by about a thousand other people.. thinking a one custom profile would give my profile a more individual look I decided to try my hand at generating my own profile.. the generator was a godsend because it freed me off the pesky task of writing lenghty HTML code which I truly suck at (its all those goddamn tags .. I cannot for the love of god keep track of them ).. anyways I made my first profile and uploaded it and fell in live with my handiwork :D .. So I thought"why not make another one".. big mistake ... to date I've lost count of the number of profiles I have created IT IS ADDICTIVE ..
Basically I'm blissfully losing myself in Layout land.. Its quite simple actually you search for a background image that suits your taste or you can upload an image to a photobucket account and then go to the online editor add the image and then select a colour scheme that you like.. after this its you creativity that comes into play.. you can get lost in all this for hours .. god knows I did.. but its all good fun ... any one interested in custom layout should visit pimpmyprofile
or Hi5decor..
But be warned you might find yourself up at ungodly hours editing layouts.... have fun and be creative...

Criss crossing the water divide

2007-03-07T06:49:00.000-08:00

My mom once told me when I was throwing a rebellious teenage hormone driven triade at her for some obscure and stupid issue that "no man is an Island".. at the time I thought yeah right to myself and set out to try and prove her wrong( ahh the follies of early teen years GRIN).. so I tried to distance myself from people completely and basically become the human version if Greenland. That worked for awhile but as happens in often in life .. a major spanner was thrown in to my works and well long story short I left the safety of my island exsistence and sought ompanionship with someone .. that turned out into a complete farce due to reason which I could have controlled but did'nt due to the fact I was to caught up in the moment (I think i've said this before).. well anyway after being burned by my experiance I again retreated to my island sanctuary vowing never to leave it again to spare my self from being hurt.. this was not a prudent move and just lead to me brooding and beating myself up for no reason.. The point I am trying to make by relating all this is . that isolating ones self from soceity is not the answer. You must exsist within it as a free entity who interacts with it for mutual benefit for both him and society... That was whole bunch of academic talk was'nt it .. hers what I think simply..
Building yourself an island hideaway from the world is fine .. but you should not withdraw it to it completely and cut yourself of from people.. being self reliant is a good idea but when you need it the most you should be able to turn to people for help otherwise your just putting yourself through alot of hardships for nothing. YOUR ISLAND WITHIN YOURSELF should be your stronghold form whence you launch yourself into life and it should be for you alone. basically if you want be an islad and build you keep upon it .. but make sure you are able and not afraid to cross the water to other isalnds and establish realtions with them.. It So you can be an Island but you should not be an island cut off from the world .. like the mighty sea captains of yore you must set out to chart the waters around you and establish ties with you neighbourig islands. Therefore what my mum was trying to tell me was essentially right.. It just took me awhile to understand it (The story of my life GRIN)

Ice Cream break

2007-02-21T06:18:00.000-08:00

Yesteday I had a very pleasurable break form the rat race of life with a couple of my friends.. Its amazing how a simple thing like having ice cream can help to ease stress levels, plus it was just fun 2 sit back and have a small chat over ice cream.. So in the midst of the clincking of teaspoons in bowls , This thought came to me.. No matter how confident you are of your self, you always have certaing guarded demeanour which might be obvious or not obvious and although we grow use to it , it is a burdensome thing to have and it is a rare thing to be in company that allows you to let all those guards down. yesterday while I was with this friend of mine I could just relax and be free for awhile, it was like having a refreshing sea breeze wash over you :).. which is why I hope that I will be able to continue to meet up like that every now and then.. Talking about friends and relationships.. My Inter Personal Skills lectutrer ws discussing groups and relationships in the world brought up an interesting point, which was that any relationship no matter the its nature wether it be between parents and children or lover or married couples .. you have to work to keep the relationship afloat.. This is something I believe to be true with just one important addition..
If a relationship is truly special and worthwhile and it does mean alot to the people involved , then due to the mutual understanding between the two people or group of people , the actuall work you have to put in to make it work will be minimal and sometimes it may require herculean efforts to maintain it due 2 various reasons, you would not hink twice about putting in that effort and when you are enganed in the act of trying to make it work , it'll seem like the effort is but a small thing you are doing for the other person and if the other person or persons in the relationship see what you are doing they will meet you half way to ease the buredn and help you make it work out. I relaise this may seem like utter romantic and impractical drivel(so if it is please say so) but I really think if this happened more often the world would be a better place.. The least number of people in a realtionship is 2 . therefore to make it work they both have to put in an effort hence the saying "It takes to hands to clap".. But at the end of the day if the relationship means that much to you as a person .. you'll find a way to see that the realtionship is longlived..
As I an writing this several of my friends are undergoig trying time sin their own relationships.. some wit parents and other with their special male and female friends.. and it saddens me to see them thus.. what I have to say is that if they believe it worthwhile to continue 2to try to work it out they should but if not they should let it go with dignity.. as for parents.. what I say is this.. dont lose your parents because at the end of the day they will e the only people who stick by you through out (Unless they are completely irresponsible parents).. I was told you should try to maintain a good relationship with yur parents if you can becaues their blessings do enrich your life more than we as children will ever know(this is a topic I want to discuss later..But i'm nt saying we capitualte to all their demands GRIN,... more on that later)
To cut to the chase as it were.. Realtionships are things that we cannot escape and we should'nt escape .. because they are things that helps us through our darkest times and help us share our joy when we need to so simply as far as possible be honest in your realtionships.. and try to be fair in them.. try to be a better person through them and you will become more than you though you could be..

Busy

2007-02-17T02:07:00.000-08:00

The last couple of weeks have been pretty hectic and for reasons that I cant quite understand I have not had any desire to update the blog, perhaps it was due to a lack of things to right about more to the point would be that the things happening around me were just tedious repetition of things that have happened before... But somethings have happened that i will touch on later .
The past week I have been trying to write out my journal for the subject Inter Personal Skills for Business, its all part of the PDP that I have to submit(This time I cant afford to muck around because my professor for this module will actually take a greater degree of interest in it).
Also I've been able to put some dark memories behind me thanks to a friends of mine(to whom I owe a lot) so all in all personally I'm not badly off.. But sadly the same cannot be said for my friends... I may have said earlier that the this has been a season for love and relationships. that has turned around and become a season of heart breaks It is sad to see it , but it certainly brings other people down to earth for it shows us that for relationships to thrive love is not enough.. In my case I see all this and thank my stars for sparing me from trials such as this . And truthfully I am angry that all of this is happening to my friends but I am forced to keep my mouth shut to keep the peace.
While my friends entangle them selves in the mysteries and miseries of love .. The country around us groans due to the harsh injustices that are thrust upon the population by those we have put our trust in and elected to public office.. These very same people who claimed to be our greatest friends now seek to become unchallenged over lords who suck the life blood dry form the people as the majority turns a blind eye.. It is a sorry state of affairs and is one that cannot be allowed to persist any more..
For now I leave you to with this thought.. should those who turns their backs on friends so that they may gain more favour , be trusted and respected. Honor and duty are hallowed traditions that cannot be cast aside for convenience

the power of music

2007-02-08T02:26:00.000-08:00

Today for the second time in my life i heard a song sung that took my breath away.. I dont know what the song was called but it was extremely touching and the group who sang it were quite talented as well. I was the rehearsals for the college talent show today and hearing that song was definitely the highlight of the day. The whole day was a fun filled day with lots of laughs for us all and i'm sure we'll remember them in times to come.

Anyway talking about the song, it was one of those songs which stops all your worries and just hearing it leaves you with a warm feeling inside you :).. Simply put it lifts you up and gives you wings ..
It is truly amazing what music can do for you. It can drive you deeper into jthe quagmire of depression or raise you into the height of ecstasy. it can soothe the mist griveous mental wounds and water both hate and love in a persons soul. The sound of music is truly a wonderous thing.

so next time your down and out just put on a CD kick back and let the music soothe your troubled mind....

Union of Spirit

2007-01-31T02:39:00.000-08:00

In Greek mythology .. Humans were supposed to have initially had 4 arm , 4 legs and a single head with 2 faces but Zeus fearing the power they enjoyed by being embodied thus .. split them in half and condemned man to spend his day searching for the half to seek completeness of soul...
Another myth tells us of the importance of the union of both male and female souls to maintain balance of life.. and through this union both persona achieved growth and development on phenomenal levels..
Which brings me to what I'm trying 2 say ... Males in our society are perceived as being stronger than women.. but is that really the truth .. Are we superior or better than them.. I do not think so .. I believe that we both have roles to play each have their own strengths and weakness .. and the strengths and weaknesses in both compliment each other such that when there is union of male and female in spirit the two of them can surmount any obstacle in their path.. I do not write this with any sense of romance in fact i am in a dismal mood right now.. (A story for another time).. anyway my point is this .. the union of male and female may not necessarily be in a romantic sense . it might involve a friendship as well .. the core of it is that both people help each other and they may feel complete around each other and that is something all of us should wish for.. I am not saying that people are incapable without finding the other half of them.. it is just that.. and life for them might be a bit more sweeter.. (That maybe a romantic notion but then it just might be true :)
If two people can find this balance of spirit between each other .. I think just maybe together they could change their part of the world and in doing so influence greater change in the world.. being alone in spirit is not the most pleasurable thing in the world although we do seek solitude often in life , but prolong this solitude and you will find that life no longer hold the prospects it did.. But if you find a kindred spirit even for a brief moment .. that moment might stretch for an eternity and life for that moment may seem filled with possibility.... it is a great thing to find your other half.. and today i AM the happiest because one of my best friends has found his kindred spirit and that spirit to is a friend of mine ..
I hope that both of them carry on and light the way for the rest of us who are not as fortunate as they are .. may their bond give the rest of us the hope we need to get through life.. and may the two of them find and keep the delicate balance of spirit between each other.. so that they might change the world together.. R and E .. this one is for you...
So basically its this .. if u should ever find a kindred spirit try 2 find and keep the delicate balance of spirit and soul .. and together face the world beyond the two of you ...

Cupids arrow

2007-01-27T11:11:00.000-08:00

mythology tells us of cupid an innocent cherub who wreaks havoc on the hearts of moratls by firing an arrow which inuces love between people of the oposite sex..
that aside .. its impossible to say who you will like and when you will start to like someone.. Not to say that it is completly beyond our contol.but mostly it happens like a lighting strike out f the blue.. Cynical though i maybe.. in truth I do not totally despise the idea of love and all that it entails.. some days it means everythn to be able to step back and daydream a little about that special someone you like so much :)..
Mostly I do not think that cupid is totaly to blame.. I think ultimately the ball is in our court .. ok so maybe love at first sight is farfetched .. but love may spring from the bond between to people .. of course this bond must be special .. And i think this bond is called friendship .. now that does'nt mean that every guy will start falling for all his friends who happen to be girls or that a girl will fall for all her guy friends.. But every now and then for each party there will come along a friend who is both special and more than a friend to them .. it may be apparent from the start or it will become clear in time.. but whatever the sequence of events .. the basic idea is this.. Unlike puppy love and all the other romantic notions this sought off relationship has a firm foundation from which it can launch itself and that foundation is layed every day by the two friends coming closer to each other and sharing life together,, but still managing to keep each others individuality intact.

I guess when this sought off thing happens between friends it is both a wonderful and ugly thing .. because on one hand there is the opportunity of enriching each others lives and on the otherhand they may fear that all this might ruin their friendship and lead to them losing a cherished friendship... Now what should be done is up to the individuals involved ..let me share some of my thoughts with you ...
I think that a relationship which has friendship as its basis is stronger because of that.. becasue then is some degree of understanding between the two people at least.. and if two friends should end up in this situation and if they r good friends they should be able to discuss it and come to some sought of resolution..
but anyway bottom line cupids arrow sometimes has help from us.. and well i u shuld fall for sum1 remember ... understanding and respect r key for the relationshuip to survive ... oh and patience to GRIN

Satyagraha

2007-01-24T08:46:00.000-08:00

In 1930 an a former lawyer in India led over a thousand follower to peacefullyy protest a tax imposed on salt by The british who ruled Indai at the time. With this act he initiated the peaceful protest againast tyranny by massive civil disobediance- Satyagraha

With His simple principles Mathma Gandhi sowed the seeds that eventually saw India gain independence. No what I have to say is not about independce .. The world over Gandhi is admired and The name spoken with repect , yet we do not try to hold to his belief not about civil disobediance.. for Mahatma taught more than that or his charater exemplified more than that.. Gandhi showed that even resistance can be doen [passively and peacefully. he showed us the virtue of patience and the virtue of thining peacfully .. Why can we no t follow his example.. never did he condone acts of violence even if they were in the name of freedom neither did he condone violent debate. He believed in peaceful resolution at all costs.. Why did he think thus .. I would like to believe that Mahatma gandhi realized or saw that the only lasting solutions can be found through peaceful dialouge. nearly 70 years have passed what have we to show for It NOTHING . we have a whole bunch of gadgtes. but as human beings are we any where close to the vision gandhi had a vision shared by Martin luther, Nelson Mandela etc.. NO WE ARE NOT we have globe torn asunder by war . we have countries being turned inside out by internal bickerings.. Humanity suffersBUT does anyone care NO ..
We will celebrate this great mans Birthday and what not, but do we seek to follow his example. No we do not. He chose a noble path and walked it no matter what came he lost friends aloved ones and still he did'ny compromise his vaues.
What do we do now to a man who would follow such a path...... We MOCK him call him impotent or a coward or we will say he his silly .. how ill bred of us to celebrate Mahtama on one hand and to ridicule those who would follow his doctrine in the other.
There is nothing to be gained by continuing violence.. some may argue that defending your loved ones is only just .. That is true but in the grander picture it may not be so.. At least defend by all means. BUT FOR GODSAKE TRY TO RESOLVE DIFFERENCES PEACEFULLY. discuss come to a compromise. Set aside petty pride and anger all other emotions .. or at LEAST TRY TO..
Life is short and its to precious to be wasted bickering arguing and fighting with each other..
Peace onto all mankind

Never never land

2007-01-21T08:49:00.001-08:00

As i put this down I am walking on a different plane far from reality for thesefew moments I am very content and happy. I cant explain it. It as if i have been transported away from the usual drudgery and all my cares and fears replaced by this sense that everythin will be alright. It feels good to be where I am even though part of me knows it wont last and that to dally in this place to long is not wise. for any one knows that you have to keep your wits about you at all times.
Yet it is refreshing to be in this Never never land inside my head. These fits of giddy joy are like a natural drug that eases your mind and body,if only everyone would partake in this outlet within their minds the world might seems a less hectic place. Maybe it is that they lack a trigger to set them on the road to this place or mayhap they have forgotten to find it within their minds.
AS for me recenlty a friends of mine helped me to find my way back to my never never land.. this friend gave me back happy thoughts which lift me up in to the air and let me fly in a world full of joy and laughter. but this time i knw better than to be caugt up in the moment.. something that most people do .. as the saying goes "To much of a good thing is never good ".. be that as it may at least for a lil while its nice 2 dream about possiblities that might never come through ..
I mean whats the point in life if you cant be a bit of a hopeless romantic at heart..(Just a lil bit though )

Never never land

2007-01-21T08:49:00.000-08:00

Umoja!! , Heshima

2007-01-13T08:50:00.000-08:00

These are two words which could solve alot of problems in the world, Umoja is the swahili word for Unity and Heshima Is the word fro respect. Now it is said that man is the most advanced species on earth because he of all creatures on this earth has the ability of creatibe intellectand the ability to adapt and evlove with the times.. And most of all he was able to suppress most animal instincts and use them to his advantage. But somewhere along the way we have strayed from the aprt and now we are no better than the common ape in the jungle infact the average chimp is propably more moral than the average human. what are we but advanced apes with technolgy and flashu gadgtes which we use to inflict pain on each other due to our in ability to resolve petty squabbles and differences in views and religion, opinions etc. We are sadly unable to unite or respect each other at least a majority of us anyway. and I am as guilty as you are.

Religion was established not to glory in god aalone . it was the one thinmg that set us apart from the animals. It was instituted to lead and inspire man to greater achiebements and quell is natural animalistic desires o. but sadly this does not happen in the name of religion some off histories greatest atrocities have been committed .. Let me be clear on one point this is in no way the religions fault the falut lies in mans own interpretation which he was coloured by his greed and selfishnes.
You might be wondering why I am voicing my opinions thus.. well the simple reason is this Religion is but only one of the many reasons we humans fight each other. In the country I come fromthere are 3 main languages one of which is English the other 2 being spoken by 2 different racial groups aS they put it.. (There another thing that really bugs me whta with this whole race thing do not all of us belong to the human race.. why do we fracture ourselves by dividing our brother by the colour of their skin, the religion they follow and the tounge they speak, we further divide by the place they come from , the amount of money they have etc.. divide divide divide thats all we do .. IT MAKES ME SICK )
wEll back to my story in my country we have been fightin a civil war which was sparked due to differences between the 2 opther language speakers.. sure they might have been other reasons but the lack of understanding and mutual respect was the leading cause for hostilities. anyway tht aside .. now our people are looking towards peaces after a near 20 years of bloddshed.. you wpuld think that having realised theire mistakes people would take steps to seperate religionand language brriers and seek integration ..well no they dont what they sek is to further widen thhe chasm between eah other..
Just this week a group of one of the previously mentionedsuppose racial groups wanted to organize a religiuos observance related to them which was all fine .. until they brought up the reason.. Supposedly our Uni only celbrates christmas ad that not accpetable because ther are other religions at The Uni.. This argument is flawed beacaue there only celebration at Uni for x'mas in the christmas party and there is nothing religious about it. This just shows this group is just trying to cause problems by bringing in traditions that will just spark friction between groups at uni I mean FOR ONCE CAN WE LEAVE RELIGION OUTSIDE AND NOT BRING IT IN WE ARE HER TO LEARN NOT BLOODY RUN AROUND DOING OTHER STUFF.
The absolute worse part is that the gropu organizing say this is a religious observance and then they want 2 have a party afterwards the utter gall of these cretin they would bastarsize the solemnity of the occasion with such frivolous display shows that their intentions are not what they say them to be..
Now I am not the most religious person butI say in these hallowed halls of learning let us leave aside all this rubbish of language , cast , creed and race .. and find Umoja and Heshima for each otheR
Frankly I believe without unity our race is doomed for early extinction and well maybe thtats a good thing..

Sweet Freedom

2007-01-10T22:51:00.000-08:00

Yipdee DooDaa.. Handed in the last project for the semester .. Finally free from project deadlines and report writing until the next semster at least :D..
it was nightmare trying to meet multiple project dealines this semester.. Late night report writing sessions getting up the next day for presentations was all harrowing but interesting at the sametime.The most important lesson i'm waling away with is TIME MANAGEMENT, Truth be told I wated tme haning out and having fun when i should have been working on project stuff came back to bite me when it came time to meet deadlines and what not... I need to priortize my work and enjoy myself at the same time.. Because othewise University woul just be boring GRIN...
On the up side got to know some off my bacth mates very well and shared some hilarious times with them.. All in all it was a fun 1st semester and well on with the second i guess
i LEAVE YOU WITH THESES PICTURES

(The Lovely Ladies )

(The team Doing god knws wat)

Vision and a plan

2007-01-07T22:32:00.000-08:00

I completed my PDP last friday . it only dealt with goals and objectives related to The ICT Practitioner module. but it made me reakise something well actually it made me remember somthing. It reminded me that without a vision and a goal in life a person is very lost.. Ok i realise what i said is very DUH. but bear with me for a moment. How many of us actualy knw exactly what we want and where we want to be how mant of us have set realistic goals for our selves I'm not saying dont dream or dont aim for the stars. what I mean is that what ever your dream you should first break it diwn into relaistic chunks and complete each. I'm talking about your grand strategy to achieve your crazy imaginative and totaly acceptable dream..
many peope dream big dreams but they do not make them real. its not a falut to dream big the falut lies in nit plannin properlt and not adapting your plan to change. People will point to tycoons and other great achievers and say " they are where they are because they dares to dream" but i'm pretty sure they managed their achievements because they had a good plan.
I used to have a plan but somewhere along the way i lost sight of it . so ryt now i dont have a long trem plan and that scares me.
But after this PDP thing i'm starting to piece together a dream an idea a plan. I will build my plan and make it realistic and achieve it.
But planning is never easy . But this must be said one should always have a plan even if its a bad one .

Try ,Try and Try again

2006-12-28T07:51:00.001-08:00

Today was a rather uneventful day. So as usual i was lazing about at home chatting with friends. After being a rather uneasy third wheel in converstaion involving 2 of my friends. I suddenly relaised how incomplete the phrase

"Try , Try and try again"
I mean not taking away from the important message it conveys and all, but when you think about it practically it leaves out another important idea which shuld be related to it The idea of Trying a different approach each time. To often in life we come up against a barrier , obstacle , bump on the road or simply put a situtation which really throws a monkey wrench in to the machinatiom of your daily life. It is your actions in this situation that sets you apart from the rest of the pack.
It takes courage , valour and a strong heart and mind to face these situation and to win.Now you may not win all the time but its importanat you keep trying to win . Nut most importantly one must not stick with one plan and try to batter your way through the problem because you may see little success or worse that approach may cost you dearly in the long run. So trying varied approaches to the problem is key because it allows you a greater chance of success plus more importantly it Allows you to gain more understanding of yourself and of your strengths and limitations.

ANOTHER point to remember is one must never be pig headed and one must be able to handle defeat as a hero would with your head held high and one must be openminded to the opportunity to sidestep these obstacles when its is clear thatsurmounting them might be to costly.

Intelligence , courage, strength and Honor are virtues which should be cultivated in the new gneration.

overview of Ruby Part 1

2006-12-27T21:26:00.000-08:00

First of all Ruby is an interesting language basically its coding is composed of simple english sentences which can be understood by both computers and people. The thing to remember the syntax relies on using puncuation marks at the proper point. THIS IS IMPORTANT. On to the basics of ruby

Variable- in ruby any plain or lower caseword is a variable, it may consist of letter, digits or underscore.
eg rouge, 1242 or attack_foils
these are used to refer to things within your coding

Numbers- there are 2 types of number

Integers - for basic digits

in these you cannot use commas between digits

eg: 12 or 1000_000_000

Floats - this what decimal numbers are called in ruby any number with scientific annotaion can also be called a floa

eg 3.14, -808.08
String - Strings are any sought off collectin of characters whicj are surrounded by quotes
both double and sigke quotes are used to denote strings
eg : "I am the Darth Mara" & ' I wish '

Symbols - These are words thta look like varibles but start with a colon (:)
eg- :Anderson , :X1
They can be considered as lightweight strings which wont be written to the screen

Constants- Any Capitalized word is a constant in Ruby. They are used to insert unchanging information in coding
eg: Time , Array

Methods - Methods are usually attached to the end of a variable by a dot
eg : attack_foils.lock
if variables were the nouns of ruby then methods would be the verbs of it . so basically methods are action that can be omplemented on the variable.

To be continued

ONE CLICK INSTALLER FOR RUBY ... for beginners

2006-12-26T22:12:00.000-08:00

hey i found this link for a one click insatller for ruby on the windows XP platform . heres the link
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/
this is a godsend for people jus looking 2 experiment with Ruby

Ruby

2006-12-10T22:39:00.000-08:00

One of my brothers friends told me 2 chek out this programming language called ruby last week and i did.. and let me tell you i'm hooked on it. Its been around for awhile and its one off the few totally object oriented languages out there.. And the best part its completely free becuase its being developed under an open source liscence.. I'm including somesites any1 interested in finding out more should visit them ..

Well for the next few weeks i hope 2 learn more about ruby and i'll share it wit u all as i go along

Linking 2 forms in VB.Net and using textbox input from the first in the second

2006-12-10T01:07:00.000-08:00

well it took me awhile to find out hw to do this properly but anyway its pretty simple to do this
Lets us take 2 forms Form1 & Form2 And we will call Form2 From Form1.. The coding for Form1 will involve declaring the textbox we will use as Shared Textbox..

Form1 Coding
Dim f2 As New Form2
Public Shared newname As TextBox

Private Sub cmdgoto_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdgoto.Click
'makes txtuser textbox the public shared textbox newname
newname = txtuser

f2.Show()
Me.Hide()

End Sub

End Class

The line in red is the most important because it allows you 2 use the textbox commonly between the 2 forms

*after u add this to the first form u need not add any more coding 2 da second to initialise the above function mentioned in the heading .. ohh but wen u wnt 2 exit the program u must specify in the second form tht both form1 and form2 shuld be closed.

Lucky 7 Game Coding using Vb.net

2006-12-10T00:24:00.000-08:00

As part of my first year ICT practitioner Module I had to build this Lucky 7 gAME using vb.net.. it ws fun and engaging so i decided to share the coding with everyone(this is better thn saying i wanted to show off Grin ... HEY HOLD on i just said tht . Well nvrmind )

Public Class Form2
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
'declaration of variables used by the program
Dim guess1 As Integer
Dim guess2 As Integer
Dim guess3 As Integer
Dim wincount As Integer
Dim spincount As Integer

Private Sub clearvalues()
'initialises the values of the count values and generates 3 random numbers
wincount = 0
spincount = 0
Randomize()
Randomize()
guess1 = (Int(Rnd() * 9) + 0)
guess2 = (Int(Rnd() * 9) + 0)
guess3 = (Int(Rnd() * 9) + 0)

End Sub
Private Sub rndvalues()
'calls randomizer function and generates 3 random values
Randomize()
guess1 = (Int(Rnd() * 9) + 0)
guess2 = (Int(Rnd() * 9) + 0)
guess3 = (Int(Rnd() * 9) + 0)

End Sub
Private Sub showvalues()
'displays the random numbers in respective label
lblguess1.Text = guess1
lblguess2.Text = guess2
lblguess3.Text = guess3

End Sub
Private Sub wincounter()
'checks each random number for the value 7 and displays the approriate message
If guess1 = guess2 = guess3 = 7 Then
Call incrementwincountby3()

lblmsg.Text = Form1.newname.Text & " " & "You have hit the JACKPOT"
System.Console.Beep()

Else
If guess1 = guess2 = 7 Then
Call incrementwincountby2()

lblmsg.Text = Form1.newname.Text & " " & "You have a Double win"
System.Console.Beep()

Else
If guess1 = guess3 = 7 Then
Call incrementwincountby2()

lblmsg.Text = Form1.newname.Text & " " & "You have a Double win"
System.Console.Beep()

Else
If guess3 = guess2 = 7 Then
Call incrementwincountby2()

lblmsg.Text = Form1.newname.Text & " " & "You have a Double win"
System.Console.Beep()
Else
If guess1 = 7 Then
incrementwincountby1()

lblmsg.Text = Form1.newname.Text & " " & "You are a winner"
System.Console.Beep()

Else
If guess2 = 7 Then
incrementwincountby1()

lblmsg.Text = Form1.newname.Text & " " & "You are a winner"
System.Console.Beep()

Else
If guess3 = 7 Then
incrementwincountby1()

lblmsg.Text = Form1.newname.Text & " " & "You are a winner"
System.Console.Beep()

Else

lblmsg.Text = Form1.newname.Text & " " & "Try Again"
End If
End If
End If
End If
End If
End If
End If

End Sub
Private Sub incrementwincountby1()
'adds 1 to the wincount
wincount = wincount + 1
lblwincount.Text = wincount

End Sub
Private Sub incrementwincountby2()
'adds 2 to the wincount
wincount = wincount + 2
lblwincount.Text = wincount

End Sub
Private Sub incrementwincountby3()
'adds 3 to the wincount
wincount = wincount + 3
lblwincount.Text = wincount

End Sub

Private Sub spincounter()
'adds 1to the spincount
spincount = spincount + 1
lblspincount.Text = spincount

End Sub
Private Sub cmdspin_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdspin.Click
'gets all the functions to run on the clicking spin button
Call rndvalues()
Call showvalues()
Call wincounter()
Call spincounter()

End Sub
Private Sub cmdexit_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdexit.Click
Me.Close()
Form1.Close()

End Sub
Private Sub cmdrestart_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdrestart.Click
' calls required functions to restart application
Call clearvalues()
Call showvalues()

End Sub
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'calls procedures to initializes the values of the application
Call clearvalues()
Call showvalues()
lblwincount.Text = wincount
lblspincount.Text = spincount
lblmsg.Text = "Try your hand"

End Sub

End Class

Team work

2006-11-28T08:19:00.000-08:00

SO for ICT practitioner we had 2 work as a team 2 build some vb.net applications. it was a fun experiance .. I had a gr8 group Rajive , Geethan & Dilini. AKA. jiVE , Big G & Dil.
Well it ws 'nt easy and wel sumtimes it tried my patience butwe pulled through. I think we owe our success to rajive he always kept us focused and he managed 2 keep our spirits up. DIL and G initiallty tried 2 shirk the work. but thn we manged 2 iron out those problems. and we were stronger for that.
There were sum gudtimes like dil's admant stance 0n the colour blus and Jive's shadow play GRIN and well the many witty comments G contributed.
My team

IIt LOG entry -(i've lost track)

2006-11-23T07:03:00.000-08:00

Its official i've lost my mind.. I have 2 least 4 major reports to hand in , but today during my 4 hour break i played CARDS!!!!! yes of all things cards.. on a another note the last week i have realised tht human males and females unlike other anaimals put each other through the most horrifiying courtship rituals imaginable and thn throw it all away in the blink of an eye. it s both illogical and unexplicable ...

Well anyway my ownv\ views on the whole love thing are pretty cynical so i shall nt share thm here, suffice to say tht love and commiyments made when ur nt yet 21 are a dime a dozen and tht u shuld nt put much stock in thm . Enjoy life witout all these excess attachments and later on get in2 a relationship.. life is to short for u nt 2 try enjoy every min of it . and well wen ur growing up u need 2 enjoy iy 4 urself and nt as part of a coupl entity

lazy weekend

2006-11-19T06:56:00.000-08:00

i have noticed that wen u do not actually have a plan laziness keeps itself @ bay, but soon as u start somethin it hits you wit all da force it can muster. Its irritating wen tht happens. I think tht laziness is actually sum sort of restless spirit tht haunts the world looking for ppl who r about 2 embark on somethin important so tht it can impede watever they r abt 2 do.

I bet tht these must be diisembodied spirits of long dead philosphores who dont want theur theories disproven GRIN

anyways thts it 4 nw but nxt time u feel lazy jus think tht if u figth it off ur one step closer 2 makin sum old fart roll in his grave

WEIRD females

2006-11-03T08:23:00.000-08:00

Have u noticed how most women automaticallty assume tht da universe revolves around them... They talk abt women empowerment but wen u treat thm jus like u wuld normally treat a guy .. they sudden;y go all " we r women and we hv ***s so we wnt special treatment"

I believe tht women shuld hv equal rights since they r human beings.. but if they wnt empowerment and all thn they shuld take da fact tht wen they ask 4 tht ppl will start treatin jsu da same as they wuld anyone else. aND tht they might lose certain liberrties we give'em coz they r female.

so ladies this is 4 u

the end of the week

2006-10-14T23:44:00.000-07:00

so i've got back possesion of the computer from my brother. he's off with my cousin gettin measured up for a suit for my cousins wedding. yes wedding bells are in the air for my family.. but i'm nt goin 2 go into tht..

I've managed to make A small vb program.. finally which is kind of cool. but i' kp putting of makin my journal.( oh yes b4 i forget i'm supposed to keep a journal for one of my subjects so i can make a PDP.. PDP= Personal development plan) GRIN i know i know .. but i think its a good idea.. Got my first serious assignment for the semester. hav e to asses dialog using PESTLE & SWOT tools. and make an overall report about dialog.. should be interesting( i hope0.. other than thtat life goes on..

searching for somemore stargate season rips. seriously i'm turning into A real sg1 freak.. kind of like Dr Felger in the series( watch episode 7 of season 6 and you'll know wat i mean).
Ciao for knw

a long absence

2006-10-12T01:15:00.000-07:00

hey hey... Man I never imagined that college be so hectic.. and da worse part is we are not doing anythn that tiring.I guess that we are tired from having so much fun. Umiversity is a bit of a shock for once its up 2us 2 structure our own education.. when they said lectures only guide they hit da nail on da head.. GRIN, its a bit scaqry but on the hand its feels really liberating..

After about 3 weeks of lectures I've made quite a number of friends so i'm sure that da next 4 years will be funfilled.. Our click although not the most fashionable one @ IIT. We ceratinly enjoy our selves a lot more than the others.(this may prove not 2 good in the long run but for now its ok i guess).. I really want to make A COMMITMENT TO BLOG every day.. and i intend to see that I stick to this.

as my friend R found out , this is not da season fo love.. Poor chap was pretty much crushed by this girl he likes.. Its sad to see but it is part of life, .

being chased of the pc in the lab willl be back later

day 3 orientation

2006-09-20T00:34:00.001-07:00

Hd a really interesting lecture by da dean 2day.. How to be an effective student.. truthfully i came expectin a stuffy borin lecture tht wuld jus tell me stf i've already heard once. But our dean ws actually quite cool abt it he made interrestin and brought up alot of interestin points all in all he basically treated us lyk a bunch of young adults rather than a bunch of wet behind da years kids. Da word intro ws boring but tht did'nt mean we did'nt hav fun,,.

Yes well luks like gettin da seniors party done wil nt b easy bt i'm sure the rest of the batch will be up 2 organizing it GRIN. As 4 me i'm gonna seriously follow my deans advice.. @ leasy sum of it GRIN..

1st look @ IIT

2006-09-19T08:11:00.000-07:00

wel well. aft 13 years of schooling i'm finally entering da major league education experiance.. yes urs truly is starting da most important 4 years of his lyf.. UNIVERSITY!!!!!!!!.. I enterd IIT wit a sense of excitement and a lil bit of anxiety. one does'nt attentd ur bro's alma mater witout thinkin abt da standards u must seek 2 attain GRIN. but all thoughts of tht were soon put out off my head coz i hd more important stf 2 concerntrate on. i.e not fallin asleep during da orientation lecture... wel aft tht we were introduced 2 our seniors GRIN,. well they seem lyk a an ok bunch. personally i did'nt mind da ragging period and i ws kinda proud off bein part of it although it ws kinda embarassing. But hey it comes as part of da uni experiance...
There r sum snotty nosed momma's boys who did'nt lyk it all i hv 2 say is tough!!!! for them

well i've gt thrugh 2 days @ uni .. and as luck wuld hav it i've got a couple of my skool buddies wit me so it luks lyk its goonna bea fun filled 4 years

Return of Rouge-7

2006-06-22T21:19:00.001-07:00

Its been months since i've added anythn 2 my blog(tht wuld be obvious), Finally finished wit my A/L's. AHHH FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. NO MORE PHYSICS CHEMISTRY OR MATHS for awhile GRIN. I'm enjoyin sum much deserved rest(my parents do not thinks so though). Ok so mayb i did'nt actually kill myself studyin bt trust me da tension involved kinda starts 2 wear u down aft awhile.

For those of u who do not knw wat A/L's means, A/L's standards for advanced level studies it an exam tht ppl sit b4 they get entrance 2 college it involves 2 years of smart and hard work. THAT IS WAT DA EXAMINATION DEPARTMENT AND MOST PARENTS WILL TELL U. Bt lda truth is A/L's is a cunnin engine wich allows da government in my country 2 not increase da number of gov campuses 2 meet da growin num of students in my country. SEE da whole point of a/l's exam thts jus da examination is 2 mk sure tht only abt 20,000 ppl get through frm abt 3 llakhs of students who sit da exam. Truly it is a concept tht must hv been born in hell. Ok a/l's is nt a bd thin i mean we nd higher studies and yes we shuld be tested throughly bt da fact is we spend 11 years in school b4 we cm 2 da a/l year ,during those p11 years we learn all souht of stf bt da only thin tht helped even a lil 4 a/l's ws my ability 2 count ,read and write, plus addition subtration , multiplication and division,tht ws pretty much it. WEN U MOVE ON 2 A/L'S DA GAP IN DA SYLLABUSES IS SO HUGE ITS INSANE AND ILLOGICAL THT AN EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WOULD ALLOW SUCH A THING, its quite unfair 2 expect 17 year olds 2 adjust so quikly, bcoz we dont EVEN HV TIME 2FREAKIN SIT ARD AND GAWK EVEN COZ FRM DAY 1 ITS FULL SPEED AHEAD, U JUS HV SUK IT UP AND DEAL WIT IT, it lyk u r taken frm da kiddies pool and dropped in 2 DA OCEAN FULL OF SHARKS AND TOLD NONONO U CNT SWIM DA FRESTYLE ,BACKSTROKE, BREAST STROKE OR DOLPHIN, so hw pray tell am i suppose 2 swim??? da reply u gt is "HEY U WERE SMART ENUF 2 GT HERE U R SMART ENUF 2 FIGURE THT 1 OUT, BY DA WAY STAY AWAY FRM DA SHARKS THEY CN BITE U KNW". u r left thinkin jeez thnks alot.

Too be fair though if u happen 2 hv gud teachers they will help u through it,

Frm my own experiance wat i cn say is tht , Is tht u find out about wat your really made out of wether u cn take da pressure da fear and nt giv in 2 it. wat i say is its nt abt ur passin or failing its abt hw u gt urself through those 2 years, coz ultimatly u learn wat tht it all comes dwn 2 "hw u roll wit da punches". u learn 2 rely on urself and really start 2 believe in ursellf. I KNW I DID.
If u cn walk away frm a/l's knwin tht u did ur best and never gave up no matter hw ever close u gt 2 wantin 2 giv up U HAV ACHIEVED SUMTHN.. and u cn say wit conviction tht u r sum1 who cn take da punches no matter hw hard they r .

I'll leave it at tht bt 2mrw da unfairness of exams will be revealed GRIN

Return of Rouge-7

2006-06-22T21:19:00.000-07:00

the manual of the warrior of light

2006-02-28T06:16:00.001-08:00

OK ppl u hav to get ur self a copy of this book IT's caled " the manual of the warrior of light" by Paulo coelho. Its is by far one off the most intersesting books i hav ever read. Its sought of like da PROPHET. except this is more abt leading a better life and becoming a warrior of light , basically becoming a better person. the ideas are put so simply and meanignfuly tht u cn hardly put da book down it is so absorbing,
In fact most books by da same author are da same . Anyway reading is an important ability to cultivate.

PEACE

state of normalcy ????

2005-12-08T06:48:00.000-08:00

i've lost count of hw many times ppl cm up to me and tell me i'm nt normal.. during da past couple of weeks i've hd more people tell me this. Intead of being disheartened by these comments I gt 2 thinkin abt wht they were sayin. Thn i came 2 da conclusion tht all these problems wuld be soughted out by ansewrin one simple question...
WHAT IS NORMAL??.
does normal mean , is it conformin totally to societies rules & regulations & basically leading a boyscout existence I mean tht seem pretty hard seein tht societies rule change daily and tht there are always ppl who will say tht u r nt normal for conforming 2 da ideal set forth by others, yet if u do not follow them also u come under fire frm a section who say tht nt bein able 2 stick 2 a simple pattern or routine is a disease which is da embodiment of da great faliure in da human race.. Wht happened to individuality and free thinking Nt tht its ok 2 plan mass genocide and other acts of potential mass scale calamity... Wht i'm talking abt is jus bein ursef havin weird hang ups like believeing in vampires and drawing parallels frm a universe far far away. Or jus simply thinkin differrently abt a problem.. ppl who do this dnt expect everyone 2 jus drop wht they r doing and listen to them it jus tht they wnt ppl to admit tht their prespective has some truth to it.
In my case i see thing diferently and well approach thing diferently and i knw everyone does tht bt wen i tell ppl stf they jus seem to think i'm crazy and nt normal.. hw do we knw tht wht everyone else sees is da normal prespective it culd jus be tht they hav da wrong veiw.. i yjink tht ppl brand stf has normal if its accepted by da majority so in a sense we culd well be following da wrong assumtion of normality ( nt tht it will hav cataclismic consequences if we r ) bt i mean y cnt i think tht way.. i voice my views if asked & nt like i canvas for them and no one gets hurt frm them yet ppl wnt me 2 change( they gt another thin comin).. it jus seems interesting to think for a race tht harps on creativity and individuality as if there are no bounds to them , we actually only accept them if they fit in which is understandable bt wht is nt understandable is societies obsession wit destroying these views simply beacuse they dnt fit da accpeted norm (yet we honor albert einstein whose theory still does'nt make perfect sense a fine bunch of hypocrites).. Wen u think abt all this its a wonder tht we actually are the creators chosen few . imagine if he decided we needed company GRIN

mAY DA FORCE BE WIT U

The unusual

2005-12-06T07:03:00.000-08:00

Well after along time .. finished wit 2 offf my tests chemistry, physics.. after tht i've been plauged by this question. what do all the geniuses gain by discuusing the paper after u hav jus finished b4 u gt ur marks I mean obviously if u were wrong u r wrong rite no way u cn get da paper back and correct it at tht point ,??? yet soon as da paper is taken away from them these guys literally form small grops tht discuss and argue each of their answers almost as if it were a reflex action. while most of these meetings appear informal in actuality they r highly ritualised and a certain set of ethics and rules apply to this congregation of intellectual for instance if u by chancs hav da rite answer bt da majority hav oppted for another anwser u mite find ur self out in da cold havin 2 defen ur choice and also one must never forget tht u must never interrupt anothers theorising in midsentence(even if he is literally barking up da wrong tree). Another interesting custom is tht these groups hav a habit of trying 2 rope innocent bystanders such as myself into the proceeding,(which is quite pointless becoz my kind is generally happy to still be standing and stil hav control of bodily function at the end of a paper).. so da simpletons who either by choice or da inability to turn down da inivitation must put up wit 5 or 6 ppl who systeticaly confirm wat u already dread da fact tht u r in fact an idiot who knws nuthn.. or better yet u'l hav 2 ans questionslike "how'd u gt tht wrong tht ws pretty simple?" or my personal favourite"They did'nt ask tht, y'd u write tht?".. yes da world of da brainiacs is a complexx and entaertaining plce if u r jus goion 2 hang around and watch, becoz u will inadvertently hear some classic one liners
"i forgot u add tht i went and derived it frm scratch"
"here i messed up jus da last part i hope i pass" (yeah i mean da 4 parts b4 tht does'nt get marks rite!!!!!)
wht da geniuses dnt realise is tht @ da end of these discussion they mite leave wit a sense of fulfillment da poor simpeltons tht gt roped in and leave wit a sense of exactly hw badly we did da paper or worse hw close we came to gettin it rite & thn cut da whole sum off.
So a word of warnin engaging in all this post exam chatter shuld be done @ ur own risk and if u c da section highest scorer bearing dwn on ur group RUN RUN AWAY( If u cn take of like a bat frm hell :D)...
thts it for me on exams let me close by sayin if i never ever use newtons law of gravitaion or the theory of chemical equilibrium in my whole lufe i shl be sorely disappointed.

Rouge-Echo Station

2005-11-20T18:53:00.000-08:00

Rouge-Echo Station

The Mon Cal Cruiser

2005-11-16T05:17:00.000-08:00

Now this mite not seem interesting unless u happen to be in2 stat wars. Ok Every1 knw wat a star destroyer looks like(If u dnt well..... geez u've led a very sheltered life).wELL da pic on the left is tht of a Rebel Mon Cal Cruiser.. I alwayas wonder how da heck sumthn tht luks like tht cn take out a star destoyer(I, II and victory class ones also).. kinda hard to imagine... but in the galaxy far far awya anythn is possible :D..

oK any1 readin this must be thinkin whoever this is must be outta his mind.. Well let me tell u after abt 5 hours of Combined Maths & physics. u cn fl ur mind turning to A grey gooey mess... Plus i ws always a lil weird.(i think tht happend abt da time my evil elder bro convinced me i hd no head, i ws 5 2 da time, tht story i shall keep for another time). Yep iAM one of da most jobles ppl on the earthsumtimes i wonder if i really belong on this planet( Mars seems to be an interseting option)

May the force be with you!!!!!!!!!

my first day

2005-11-15T23:06:00.000-08:00

This is my first post for the blog,(i knw tht is prolly obvious:D)

Well anyways I'm jus tryin this out for da heck of it. mIte actually stick wit this and continus to post stuff. wat stuff to post i'm really not sure yet,. well hope u like it

May da force be wit u .