Hello World

Hello world ! Semester break  going on. I had made my mind to make the best use of holidays and learn some programming. i did learn for two days and after ten days ....today....all i remember is hello world !

Reading few novels these days. Finished Not a Penny more Not a Penny Less by Archer in a day. Gud book..must i say...the plot is fast and entertaining....It was followed by Sidney Sheldon's The Dooomsday Conspiracy- i dont think its anywhere near upto the mark like other of his works....the book has aroused a question in my mind-Why all the electric and battery operated appliances have to fail whenever the aliens or UFOs are sighted ?? And why do all the UFOs have to be circular disc like??-they should be more like the scientifically designed rockets and planes-streamlined!! A fact from the book i loved was a palindrome Napolean Bonaparte made - "able i was ere saw i elba" . Its the best palindrome i have come across till yet!! Have started a new one-Tell me your dreams by Sidney Sheldon.

Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol is out and in a few days would be Don-2. Some people cursed and mocked Anil Kapoor's three minute role in MI-4.....I think it was a gud decision for Anil Kapoor...... his wiki page can contain the phrase "co-starred Tom Cruise in Hollywood flick-MI.....". I liked the Amitabh version Don. The red diary concept, the Khaike paan Banaras song, the serious Amitabh look, the classic old movie revolver sound and a happy ending all appealed to me. SRK's Don appears to me like a The Good The Bad The Ugly in which the Good and The Ugly die while The Bad emerges as the survivor. Before we know they would be making movies of Batman in which the Joker kills the Batsman in the end and the director feels he has made a movie with something new in it giving us a twistful sting!! I guess out of all the movies coming next year i would be most eager for The Hobbit. There cant be ever a movie like the LOTR!

Had registered for a RBI exam which intended to recruit interns from all over the country....such high was the enthusiasm that i downloaded the given reading material all over the holidays.... even read 2 of the pdfs.....i did not know RBI bothered about what fertlizers farmers used for millets and groundnuts in our country or what strategies some handloom boards of India make.Frankly speaking i did not know handloom boards existed!! Besides the words "growth outlook",fiscal consolidation", "monetary transmission policy" really depressed me so i gave up.Reading novels is much more fun!

About 12 days ago i attended my friend Shashank Jatav aka The Dirty Mind aka Dolu's sister marriage in Lucknow.....officially speaking i never recall being invited for the event.....i wonder if there was an argument between us who were to complain- me asking why on earth was i never invited or him saying why did i come uninvited !! The return journey to Kanpur involved me failing to produce a ticket confronting a TT who fined us heavily.....'us' because Harshit Gangwar the Laddu remained a faithful friend in getting caught along with me unlike my 4 other bastard ticketless friends who quietly walked in luck. The only thing we did to contend myself was to take a proper receipt for the full fine so the money went to the railways and not in TT's pocket. i learnt two things- firstly, paying a smaller price of bribe which goes for the TT's so called Snacks' fund instead of the proper fine wont make me less respectable citizen of our democratic secular republic of India. Secondly, next time buy the fuckin ticket !

Lookin forward to the Boxing Day test match bw India and Aussies in Aussies.....again the media people making the giant mistake of focussing on Sachin's 100th ton.... its obviously pressing him.....even for the God the expectations of millions of people can be distracting. I am clueless why they included Dinda as the fast bowler in Ishant's absence. They tried Varun Aaron earlier who performed well......then how on the earth Ashok Dinda emerges in? BCCI has always been a land of mysteries.....