A Train to Hyderabad - II

One of the 'awesome-est' places in Hyderabad I saw was The Nehru Zoological park. I was sitting on the bus stand with the Piyush - the one who did not leave IDRBT after a few weeks of playing poker. We were waiting for any bus with vacant seats and go to any place it took us....er- that was our 'natural' way of seeing Hyderabad. As a bus came a random man with no work to do and sitting there probably for ages advised us to take it. It occured to me later that the man was not just a random person but belonged to the league of legendary people like Gandalf, Dumbledore, etc who just give you the instinct to do something weird and you realize later you could not have done a thing more right. The zoo park trip was more than successful as we heard the lion roaring and putting the entire place to a silence, saw the cutest tortoise ever and first time ever saw a giraffe. I am just not sure if you use the word cute for tortoises- after all they are so senior to us....

On the return we saw a lot of burkas. Actually we went to see the Char Minar but the pigeons and the women market no less than one km long along the road were more worth seeing than the Minar. Why is it even famous!! I was baffled that what did the women say to burka seller- Yeh black wala nai....nai wo black wala dikhana?!!?

One of the facilities i loved at the institute was the Gym and TT. Apparently most of the interns were looking forwards to the Olympics so they never spared the table so i had to spend my evening in the gym . If someone had told me not to use the trademill at its top speed and highest inclination i would not have done so and the machine would not have got overheated and damaged. Alas!! This ignorance of my fellow mortal humans caused the gym to be out of bounds for intern students that day on-wards!! 

Another place  worth seeing in Hyderabad was the Golconda fort. Right since when we had been planning about our visit i was saying that the fort had to do something to do with Kohinoor (the diamond not the condoms!).... No one told me anything but finally months later i found this text from wikipedia "The Golconda fort used to have a vault where once the famous Kohinoor and Hope diamonds were stored along with other diamonds. At that time, India had the only known diamond mines in the world." 

I finally convince myself that i am a bloody genius!! :D
I like forts. We snapped say about a million pics there. The credit goes to Muski who wanted to have his pics twice everytime-once with his cap and then without the cap. If you ever have been told that i completed my project in first 15 days or so,  i must inform you that the rumors were initiated by this Muski creature resembling Golum. 

The only thing more intriguing than Muski was this thing Shubham from IIT Delhi who had grown so health conscious that he used to go to the gym after smoking cigarettes !! But he was an important person there- afterall he had a Plug-in internet connection in the apartment! 
This blog must mention a year junior from my college Ved Prakash the sandwich guy....He loved making and keeping things to eat as much as i love to eat... Nothing in the entire universe can be a more perfect example of symbiosis....I was constantly blessed with maggi, laddoos, mangoes and sandwiches thanks to him !!

 I used to think that everyone who was doing any intern somewhere must be having lots of  fun people around them but i realized only later that most of the interns did not had friends who threw beer bottles from the roof at midnight !! Nor do they have friends like Deepak Bansal from IIT Kgp who say they don't want to go by train, make you walk 2-3 kms on the Necklace Road saying there is a bus station nearby and ultimately end up taking you to a railway station one stop further from the previous one from where you miss the last train and so again have to go searching for a bloody bus ! 

Some other places we visited were Lumbini Park Laser Show and a BIG Inox screen with spiderman crawling on in it. They both shared one common feature- while they were running and i was sitting motionless with a gloomy face i was desperately praying for the piece of shit to stop!!" Why did the Hollywood people even make this new spiderman and what was anything new in it! And And what was that Rimjhim Rimjhim Hyderabad during laser show?!!? They allure people with stuff like Laser Show and show things no less threatening than Twilight movie!!

A Train to Hyderabad - I

Finally I arrive home after my summer internship in Hyderabad. I have quite a time to pass without football,college library,cricket (T20 is not cricket; it is more of a baseball ) and such other pleasures of life. The only good thing in the nearest future is The Dark Knight Rises.

I reached Hyderabad via some unusual route which would be Kanpur to Ranchi, Ranchi to Chennai, Chennai to Bangalore and then Bangalore to Hyderabad all by rail due to reasons even more unusual than the route!! The Ranchi to Chennai journey was gruesome caused by the humid weather, non-stop sweating and nonsense talk by co-passengers who were going for some engineering examination in the South. The adventure from Bangalore to Hyderabad was far more adventurous with the weather being more pleasant and the debate match between a young man vs old man and his old sister regarding South Indian politics being cut short by the TT. I took a quick liking for Hyderabad after I was able to reach my provided accommodation from station by spending only Rs 13 for the bus travel of maybe 10kms. Things became even more beautiful when I found decent breakfast nearby @ Rs 10-12.

I found myself sharing an apartment with 3 CSE guys of IIT Hyderabad :Sumit Chuttani ( he does not like to be called by his surname), Rohit Jindal who is no relative of the Jindal Steel people, Rajan-an avid promoter of Indian Tobacco judging by the number of smokes he had each day! Two Piyush from my Mathematics department in IIT Kanpur joined us in the apartment later, one of whom left 7 days later after collecting his bag from the IDRBT people and playing a lot of poker in the apartment.

I got my Data mining project on “Particle Swarm Optimization trained Cascade Correlation Neural Networks and applications”. I distinctly remember looking passively at my professor when I was told about the project topic (unlike my friends who raised their eye-brows when I repeated the title). I settled in the room comfortably connected to the probably one of the most beautiful things of the world- the internet! 

The biggest news of the day was broken to me soon: Facebook and youtube are blocked on the LAN. The second biggest news of the day followed soon: Use TOR (an encrypted browser) to use fb and Vtunnel for youtube. LIKE A BOSS!!

Apparently the IDRBT guys were Hollywood fans and used access card for entering all the rooms. Before I was much aware of it I had nearly made a decent attempt to break open a door which neither appeared to be locked nor unlocked.  I loved the concept of some uniform person coming and serving us coffee or lemonade twice a day. I was also accompanied by lot of guys from IIT Kgp (Seemant Ujjain, Shresth Pratik, Deepak Bansal, Himanshu, Manish Anand, AbhinavYellanki, Nitesh) who broke the entire world into two variables called LOAD and PEACE and had only thing to say- kuch to machaya hai!! If i go on mentioning all the names i would look like this: A guy on radio on "Aap ki farmaish" programme saying "aur is gaane ki farmaaish ki hai Patna se Bittu, Chitu, Ballu, Sonu......aur unke saathiyo ne..."

 Initially the mess guys who served us chapattis using a spoon and a fork and wore white uniforms were not very pleased at us asking for more chapattis, but reluctantly gave to our demands after persistent demands and deceitful pilferage!! The mess people continued to surprise us with a big container of rasam each day at lunch and dinner. We failed to figure two things: What to consume the masala water aka Rasam with ?
How the fuck all of it got finished?!!?

Our first trip out in the city was to the Hyderabad Central and grand looking but good for nothing GVK one mall. I took good care not to invest money throughout the intern into crap like Jannat 2, Teri Meri Kahani, Shanghai, etc at the 'cash extracting machines' called Inox, imax, etc. I did watch Vicky Donor on  the lappy and liked it. We found some Rs 55 theatres with the sexiest seats you could imagine of ! There were sofa seats on which I sat with my legs folded cross on the seat and the cooler beside me blew winds from the Himalayas into my happy smiling face. I think it was one of our greatest discoveries in Hyderabad. We watched Rowdy Rathore and Gangs of Wasseypur there. Akshay Kumar sucks !!

(to be cont.)

The Best Of SPORTS

Hi everyone.....


I dont think any of you give a damn about the World Series Hockey but according to Wiki....." WSH became the first hockey tournament ever to live stream all the matches online on Google's video and music sharing site YouTube " Also Sher-e-Punjab became the first crown holders after winning 5-2 vs Pune Strykers....! 


I consider it wise to keep the Hockey section as short as possible as i dont want to lose any of my readers!!


The Emperor of Entertainment has arrived- the Indian Premier League......and it initiated with a clash bw two mighty teams - Chennai Superkings vs Mumbai Indians (only after a weird looking Katy Perry shook her vocal chords and other body parts)- the two IPL teams with topmost brandvalue.....it was not much of a contest and the Chennai localites must have been disappointed to see their home team crumble at mere 112.....The MI did hardly anything wrong in the successful chase......the only disappointment being The Cricket Maestro getting retired hurt at 15.... I am looking forward to a great performance by the spinner Pragyan Ojha this season......


The second match KKR vs Delhi Daredevils saw the wrath of Gods and was reduced to a 12 over game......KKR continues to disappoint in IPL with a devastating batting performance......a score of 97 might not look bad in 12 overs to you but only as long as you dontknow that they lost 9 wickets in achieving that!! The less star studded DD finished the job only at the cost of two wickets and with five balls to spare.....Irfan Pathan starred in the chase with a 42run knock off 20 balls and bagging the man of the match award......


The UEFA Champions League saw no surprises with the Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Chelsea moving into the semis.....the only team facing some real resistance were the Blaugranas  against AC Milan who had held them at a goalless in the Milan home but failed to pull a magical away win at Camp Nou and so FC Barcelona kept their record of being unbeaten at home since October 2009!! The best of action is yet to come with Bayern Munich taking on Mourinho's team...frankly speaking i dont know which is preferable-- an aggressive Real Madrid vs Barca in the finals or Barca facing the German Club in its own den (MUNICH) !! Frankly speaking I do not think Chelsea should be much of any hinderance in Barca's path to a consecutive second year UEFA Final !! 


Some people cant digest Milan's defeat at hands of the European Champions of last season and continuously point at refree's faulty penalty award to Barca in the second leg......i wonder why cant these people look at the game stats of 60-40 ball possession or number of attempts on target 8-1 .....the only figures AC milan excelled in the match was the number of yellow cards - SEVEN vs Barca's two !!.......I believe a few more minutes of play and the entire team would be carrying a yellow card each ......something like an ID or Admit card!! 


Lionel Messi made a record of highest number of goals in a single UEFA Champions tournament and is currently sitting on 14 with at least two games for him! RESPECT!!


I dont watch Formula one races but i do become aware when some German chauffeur like Sebastian Vettel raises his middle finger at any Indian.....the Germans continue to show their attitude and superiority like they did on their path to devastation during WW-I and WW-II.....Some people never learn! It gives me pleasure to see him waiting for his first win of this season after his last season's dominance..... 


Though i must tell you that Narain Kartikeyan did collide with Vettel causing him to lose several points......! :P


Jai Hind!

The Downfall of Rightshopping,in

Hi everyone! 


The greatest thing ever since invention of wheel has occured - i finally got interned at IDRBT, Hyderabad. Ever since i got the mail i have become so impulsive that i pick up random people on the chat make a smiley and say "meri intern lag gyi" . At times i even go to the extent of making them exclaim using this - " Particle Swarm Optimization trained Auto Associative Neural Network (PSOAANN) as Nonlinear Principal Component Analysis (PCA)  and a single-class classifier: Applications to Banking and Finance "-- this has been mailed to me as my project topic. I believe either it has never been tended to by an indegenious mind or it must have been a top secret project by secret people because nowhere on the google the whole expression is contained on one web site! 


Coming on to the one of the best things in the world- Cricket. Bangladesh stunned India and Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup by successfully chasing against both of them. They were so close to the third greatest thing of human race after invention of the wheel and my internship- almost winning against their forefathers-Pakistan but just fell short of two runs. Unlike most other people i dont see Bangladesh as weaklings....in the past few years they have been doing quite good and the one of the best things that might have happened to Bangladesh Cricket is BPL (Bangladesh Premier League)....It equips the players with ability to handle pressure, play sensible cricket and be fearless against any strong team. Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan are some very talented players on whom Bangladesh would be relying in future.
Mind this, The wheel i was talking about was not the detergent wheel for utensils....



Have you ever observed cats? Sometimes i observe birds and animals too closely and this has aroused much curiosity in me regarding cats.....when i look at dogs - i see them sniffing around for food all the time or having a nap, Birds keep hopping around with short swift flights to and fro eyeing small insects or food or messing with squirrels, squirrels keep running up and down looking in tree holes but Cats?....all they do is sitting on their back legs and staring at people.... creepy !!........like some people in your neighbourhood (in Maths it is also called an open ball around an element x !!) whom you would always see sitting in the verandah or balcony watching people pass by and doing nothing.....the worst thing you could do then is make an eye-contact- they never break the eye-contact and when you finally tilt your head in the other direction i believe they sway their fists in honour of their only successful venture of life! Want to know a fun Cat-fact ? Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound!! Also Sir Issac Newton is credited for inventing CAT doors.
I dont think i would ever own a cat unless some1 threatens me to do so else he will kill me......bloody useless and spooky.....



If you have not listened to the Jimi Hendrix -Vodoo Song you must do it immediately.....and if you dont like it dont tell anyone.....you would be probably be considered a disgrace to human race..... as disgraceful as the Roadies' hosts the Baldy brothers.....Also if you like hearing good music and have not heard of a band called Florence and the Machine, you might want to try its Hurricane drunk, Howl and Seven devils.....


I have a free coupon of rightshopping.in which bestows you with a 100 rs shopping discount.....only its useless to me because its only applicable to salwar-suits, sarees, perfumes and bouquets!!....I have tried every means to sell it and its quite clear to me that i am never going to be a good businessman or salesperson (judging by that the coupon is still unsold!) Why would the web site ever gift such a coupon to me? I mean whats the probabilty that anyone buying a book A Beautiful Mind would buy salwar suits ? If they would have made a coupon for earphones and Messi or Sachin t-shirts it would not have been such a waste......Clearly i am not the only one who does not know how to sell stuff.....the rightshopping.in people are on their path to doom .......they will fall and they will fall deeep.....


Before any of you object to my not including Sachin's Tendulkar 100th century in the greatest things or events of the world.....i want to make it clear that after what we have seen in his stance, his cover drives and straight drives, his humbleness,his sportsmanship and his GODness we should know it was no miraculous task for him.....it would have happened anyway.......it is more awing for mortals and less graceful people (rest of the cricketers) of the world who are shadowed in his presence......My roomie thinks Sachin should retire.......He is sick.....pls msg him on facebook " Get well soon Maamu"...here is the link : https://www.facebook.com/Anurag9119


JAI HIND

Holi Holidays @ Home

Time-12:47

Date-08*03*2011

Just finished a movie- The Girl with the dragon tattoo.......good movie.....Daniel Craig and a weird actress with a lot of piercings on her body.......dnt emphasise much on the title.....the dragon tattoo has hardly anything to do in the movie.....Also watched War Horse in the noon...... more than a good movie- something like an awesome or maybe awesome square movie! And it had to do quite a bit with both horse and war... I wonder if the Bollywood directors, scriptwriters and actors feel even a tiny bit of shame when they watch and compare such marvellous movies with their Desi Boyz and Wanted! Earlier they relied on the actresses getting naked to attract the crowds but i believe now they felt there should a chg in the trends – "league se hatkar movie" so we now had Desi boys doing the same....

If you want to see a light movie and see time travel without any magic or sci-fi shown in the movie have a go at "Midnight in Paris".....n dont think i have taken money for publicizing Hollywood movies in India.....I am a big well wisher of Indian goods and things and sports......like i always buy Indian made Dabur Red toothpaste, HUL made Hamam soap, Action made footwear, etc........Gandhi wd have been so proud of me....if i was born in late 1800s i might have got a mention in History books along with him! Anyways Midnight in Paris.....at mid-night in Paris each day the protagonist enters a cab and somehow reaches the early years of Paris and meets Hemingway, Dali, Picasso,etc......

I have read only one book by Hemingway yet- For Whom The Bell Tolls.....the plot is back in times of Spanish Civil War.....and the protagonist is assigned to blow a bridge......the book is great except it contained lot of philosohy at times not meant for people like me with little knowledge of literature and symbolism! Symbolism and Philosohy reminds me of Paulo Coelho......currently reading Brida .....i have absolutely no idea why he wrote the book and what had he smoked or drank before writing it.....mayb when i complete it i would be impressed ......i dont like to criticise Books or write anything to hurt their feelings .......

Today as i waiting to cross the road i met a rickshaw puller constatntly staring at me......Within 2 seconds i had come up with the reason for eye-contact- we were wearing the same Barca 10 number Messi jersey!! i almost had made my mind to give him a hi-five and shout "Yo Barca" but i guessed he was not much in Barcelona or football.....because then he would never had worn a Messi t-shirt with a 's' missing......thats a sheer insult!! At least i wd never buy a Messi jersey with any spelling mistake that is noticable even if given for 100rs less !!

Important Stuff:

Regarding Kapil Dev's recently given statements, i believe there is a lot of gravity and truth in his words.... except in one- I dont see why he said Tendulkar should have retired immediately after the World Cup....i mean where was the motivation and reason to retire? He was in good form in those days.....also if Tendulkar would have retired each time some Ian Chapell or Kapil Dev recommended so.....would the Little Master have reached to such heights? Besides this,i believe criticization of Sehwag and Dhoni was completely justified.....absolute bias towards Suresh Raina and neglect of Manoj Tiwary.......

Admiration for fight the Lankans put before the Aussies in the VB series.....chasing 287, almost chasing 310+, and a successful chase in the second final !! They deserved to win the series as said by Ravi Shastri ! Indian women Kabaddi team deserves a mention for becoming the World Champions! And so does Sandeep Singh for his recent excellent performance in qualifier for Olympics Hockey.

The Google Incident

Hi.... my friends and lovers (if any).... here i am ...back at home in Ranchi.....after a most uninteresting journey by train.....nothing worth mentioning .....unless u r interested in knowing that the railways are campaigning for saving paper....and encouraging us to carry digital tickets in mobiles as pdf or sms....i sincerely obliged...

Besides the rail journey even the midsems were unhappening...i mean i did not miss any 40% midsem exam of any course....Back at home today saw the UP poll results .....glad on seeing the elephant woman uprooted from her throne......was not any good.....raising gigantic elephant statues and making expensive parks can hardly be considered synonymns for growth.....growth means growth of the people and of the state .....not growth of the party.....besides every political, physical, chemical and biological happening in India stimulated only one response from Mayawati- rubbish Dalit talk! Also the new successor of UP- Akhilesh Yadav looks decent to me....people would be expecting a Bihar like change from him.....How things have changed.....What image did Bihar evoke in times of Laloo yadav and Now Bihar is seen as a symbol of change, of growth, of success!!

Speaking of Bihar it reminds me of another incident-more than 6 months back.....i refer it to as The Google Incident. A friend of mine pinged me on Gtalk and sent me a link.....inviting me to watch a 'hot' video......it almost made me smile,we have more than hot videos available on hard disks and that too in HD prints......so i would hardly take pain to open his link for watching any crap.....He insisted that the video had spread like fire among my friends and i would not believe who was in it!! Curiosity got better of me , the link directed me to my gmail account and was asked to log in....i didnt give any thought  and logged in my gmail account.....to find nothing but my read mails....soon i got a ping back.....saying ur account is mankey365@gmail,com and passwd was kungpanda2.....if u want ur new passwd u r advised not to log out of ur gtalk and follow the given instructions.....!! and then he gave me a phone number asking me for a Rs 200 recharge within two hours if i wanted to see my account!

Now i did not exactly consider my gmail account as my girlfriend or wife or sister....in fact not any relative as far as i know...but i loved my gmail account.....i wd never have deserted my gmail or cheated on it ......but only as long as i did not have to spend a single penny on it! I called my roomie to my rescue.....now my roomie Anurag KS did play a role in the whole rescue operation but i wd hv been much more proud of him if he had shown some style in the rescue like in Hollywood flicks !! My roomie threw some lines at him on the gtalk....something like if he realized what he was doing and could go to jail and he was messing with wrong people.....i will hardly consider ever using such threats....they only reveal ur weakness and desperation .....instead i would love to annoy him saying something like he must raise his standards and not beg for Rs 200 from people like me to buy his bread.....not that these lines would do any good.......!!

 Meanwhile my gtalk refreshed and i was signed out ....the guy had the nerves of calling me and asked me why was the recharge not done yet.....I should have said something funny mayb like "wait a sec dude ...Ambani is on the other line waiting for my order to recharge ur number"......he had already removed my security question......still somehow i reset my passwd using my alternative email id.....I was going to remove his phone number he had fed .....when he pinged me to see if i really had logged into my account back !! He wrote '?'.... i replied ':)'......it would have been greater pleasure writing "Nobody gets the better of Sherlock Mayank Holmes" but what a pity, it did not strike me then and before i could write anything on the chat he rechanged my passwd again using his fed phone no...... And then so did I again using my alternative mail id ! The "El Classico" of password changing continued for a brief time before my roomie came with a  David Villa killer instinct and shut the game with a winning goal in an awesome 1 minute game—removing his phone number and   other data before he could do anythg !! If i was wearing a Barca t shirt then i would have removed it and waved it like we had won the La Liga!  My roomie did not even ask for a treat!!

Now if you were Sherlock Holmes like me a question wd have crossed ur mind......why did i write earlier Bihar reminded me of this incident.....it so happened that after everything ended i spent quite a time on securing my gmail and fb accounts .....doing so i found ip addresses of some place of recent login-- the ip is 117.197.76.114 and on doing some googling it shows as Bihar- Bailey Road- the coordinates are 25.6N 85.1167E .......no idea if its correct or not......if any of my readers know sci fi stuff or have any news related to cyber complaints pls do tell me !!

CounterStrike Edition

6th February, 00:43

Hi everyone, Here i am again writing once again my and team India's history and geography; Our beloved team India has finally tasted some blood in the second T20 match. Though i am not much of a supporter of this short format of cricket, i must say Indians looked a brilliant field in the t20.

 This time i want to show my patriotism and loyalty and give free publicity to the I league football going in  our nation, about which you must be hardly aware of.....I am surprised why cant we come up with good football infrastructure in our country? I so much want to see Indian players in the world's most popular sports and us shouting cool Indian names instead of Rooney or Higuain or Ronaldo......i did not mention Messi (he is special to me n always supported!!) Here is the link to I League's wiki page ! I believe the All India Football Federation would appreciate this, if at all they believe in the country's future in this game. Not many are in this world who would do free publicity and that too for Indian Football!

I LEAGUE

Elections have arrived in my college.....they had never been a great time for me in the first two years. People pounding fists on my door, disrupting my sleep and then handing long manifestos and showing their confident faces which cleverly hides their "i am doing this crap only for my resume" expression! But this year is different! The table has clearly turned about.....i am doing the fist pounding for my IIT K bhai Abhay Jain aka SuperMama and i believe our manifestos are one of the longest i have ever seen.....Its not much fun though - in the morning (our morning means 12 noon) we are smartly standing and confidently giving "I know what i am doing" look.....by the half day our shoulders are like unwatered plants drooping sadly....and our faces giving  "What really are we doing with our lives?" looks!! The candidates have been strictly asked to refrain from any online campaigning.........I am so much tempted to see what happens if i tag some people from the Election Commission in this blog? Will they be offended and fine us? Will they think this as an inappropriate action by candidate's campaigning team? Or will they be pleased by my free election proganda of IIT Kanpur?

Finally i have watched Agneepath.......Admirable! I have made some new guidelines for Bollywood movies.....to watch them or not? Any movie with no overacting and no Salman Khan's brother with some tolerably bad storyline is a watchable Bollywood for me! The only thing annoying i found in the movie was that Sanjay Dutt was not thrashed and stabbed enough before being hanged......after i had watched the movie on my lappy a few friends did make me regret of the fact that i missed watching Chikni Chameli on a big cinema screen! 

I cant afford to not write about our Counter Strike adventures these days.....I must tell you if you play CS for the first time and start enjoying it, you would be tempted to throw grenade at any group of people crowding around your room ( i mean in the real world) or taking out a fellow mate in a far lobby (only his head visible ) with a sniper rifle.....or even trying to enter a solitary washroom cautiously, fearing some1 with an AK-47 might be taking his position there!  After you have dealt with these a few days or weeks your mind would return to normal and you would feel like you are not afraid of anyone in this world !

 At times you might be deceived by the idea that you have become a very expert player and you challenge some1 unknown to you.......you realize your mistake after the first 10 games when you have failed to killed your opponent even once, when he was playing with his pistol against your superzoom magnum sniper rifle!......At the end of an hour or so.....you end up at the canteen with your fellow CS mates with brave smiles and saying "sala kitna uchal uchal k head shot deta hai".........If you want to meet such people you can  meet my wingies Utpal Raman Sharma codenamed Damon, Harshit Gangwar aka Avenger,  Gandaya codenamed Kill them All and Rohan Jhingar aka Drunk Barney! 

Over and out!