Author: SG

Missing my DCam !!!!

I used to own a Canon A75 before my sister robbed it off me and took it to Mumbai along with her. I was promised that I would be bought another camera pretty soon but it has been about 4 months now and the pretty soon is not yet here.

Its raining like anything here and in the past half an hour I have seen about 100 different shades of yellow, purple, red and what not in the wide open sky. Apart from these beautiful colours, my campus is all green and red and gray and the combination is any photographers dream. Right now outside my window, the sky is a tint between purple and orange, there are greeen leaves, red buiding and a guy in red t-shirt and white shorts.

I want to be a photographer some day and I think clicking random pictures here would help me learn the fine art.

O I miss my camera so much…

The Gender Wars

There is this girl in my class and she can play the Nokia Snake like no one else. I think she is addicted to snake and there was this Strategy Lecture where I was not so interested in the topic being covered so I came up with this sort of poem for her …

Once there was this lady
and then there was Nokia’s Snake
She would do anything
anything in the world she could make
She had the drive to go endlessly
but the snake would put the brake
People around her would give her advice
the dear advice that she won’t take
04p030 @ 98100***** won’t listen
won’t listen cos she was ADDICTED TO SNAKE

And as they say Tit for Tat, she came up with this …

Here’s was this guy who didn’t like snake.
Who loved to chatter without any break.
On every silly thing, he has the silliest take.
Check him out on the blog he makes.

Certainly far far better than what I wrote but things din’t end there. She had to say the following also…

Saurabh
And
Unstoppable
Rambling
Are
Best/Bitter (take ur pick!)
Humour

Thats Saurabh Garg for you!!

Haasil – Aankhen Bhi

A brief filmography of my current favrorite song .. 😀

Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zuban

Movie Name: Haasil (2003)
Singer: Abhijeet
Music Director: Jatin-Lalit
Lyrics: Israr Ansari
Year: 2003
Producer: Karma Network Ltd
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia
Actors: Hrishitaa Bhatt, Jimmy Shergill

Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Bin Bole Kardeti Hai Hsalat Yeh Pal Mein Bayan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Bin Bole Kardeti Hai Hsalat Yeh Pal Mein Bayan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan

Khamoshi Bhi To Pyaar Hai
Rakhti Bahut Yeh Asar Hai
Kab Ishq Hojaye Yaha Dil Ko Kahan Yeh Khabar Hai
Do Din Bhi Yeh Silsile Chup Sake Hai Kahan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan

Hume Neend Aye Na Jab Aankhon Mein
Badhne Lage Bekarari
Shabnam Ko Bhi Chune Se Jab
Mehsoos Ho Chingari
To Aisa Lagta Hai
Ek Hai Zameen Aasmaan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Aankhen Bhi Hoti Hai Dil Ki Zubaan
Bin Bole Kardeti Hai Hsalat Yeh Pal Mein Bayan
Bin Bole Kardeti Hai Hsalat Yeh Pal Mein Bayan

Counter-Strike – Date with the Destiny

Tomorrow on 24th April 2005, my Counter Strike clan MML would be entering a competition at Reliance Web World in Gurgaon. Last time when we went there, we eaily won the tourney and walked away with the prizes. This time, its different. I have been told that there are far too many teams and the teams are far too better. Anyways challenge and risk are my way of life and I am looking forward to the event.

People who would be helping me out there and are my clan members are …
Pawanjit Singh Wasu aka MML | hitman
RajKiran Sharma aka MML | ICEman
Sudhanshu Gupta aka MML | Anathema
Saurabh Garg aka me aka MML | Krror_Singh

two other MML mmebers that would not be able to make it due to their commitments and academic rigor. The reasons would be explained sometime later when I would be having 1000000000 xtra minutes to type in. By the way they are Bethune Velamati and Satyajeet Gandhi.

And since I am talking about gaming and on top of it I am talkin about First Person Shooters and on top of it a team game, how can I end this post without mentioning kAgE? kAgE aka Kunal Garde happens to my mentor and I hope I get to beat him someday, somewhere in ANY game !!!!

Books Books Books

Although I am not one of those who would read and read and read. I read stuff when I am bored or when something is very highly recommended. I havent been able to read a lot of books but here is a complete list of books that I have read.

The list includes majorly fiction novels and some other interesting stuff.

-> Arthur Hailey – Airport

-> Buck Rodgers, Robert Shock – The IBM Way

-> Dan Brown – Angels and Deamons
-> Dan Brown – The Vinci Code

-> Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox – The Goal

-> Jeffery Archer – Sons of Fortune – Completed on 21st Sep 2004
-> Jeffery Archer – Honour Among Thieves

-> John Grisham – The Runaway Jury
-> John Grisham – The King of Torts
-> John Grisham – The Street Lawyer
-> John Grisham – The Testament
-> John Grisham – The Brethren
-> John Grisham – The Firm – Completed on 15th Aug 2004

-> Kim Woo-Choong – Every Street Is Paved With Gold

-> Mario Puzo – The Godfather

-> Paul Erdman – The Setup

-> Sidney Sheldon – Morning, Noon and Night

One good thing about books is that you get to learn about a few things without leaving your home. You would konw about the way things work in say the oposite end of the Globe, How people live in deep jungles in Africa, how do aeroplanes fly etc.

Also you can learn from other people’s experiences. You can take clues from the events from other people’s mistakes, great moves and be inspired.

As said so frequently, every coin has two faces and there are some very good reasons to read books and there are some reasons why I detested books.

The thing about books is that it makes one stick indoors. You would be spending long hous reading those huge novels etc. I have always been a person who would like to go out and staying indoors is the last thing I would ever do.

Also the books are at times biased. Well every form of information source is kinda biased. Talk about NewsPapers, Televisoin, Information Channels, I believe most of them are biased.

I want to add a brief summary about em. I just realized that I have read a lot of them and I don’t remember the sequence of evetns … Fors example, I don’t know what happens in the Sons of Fortune or what was the ending of any Grisham… Blame it on my poor memory !

Edit Log:
15th Aug 2004 – Added The Firm
21st Sep 2004 – Added The Setup and Sons of Fotune
18th Apr 2005 – Added Honour Among Thieves, Angels and Deamons, The Vinci Code, The Runaway Jury and The King of Torts

Last Edited on 18th Apr 2005 @ 12:01 AM

Ego Surfing !

While EgoSurfing today, I found out that a gaming website talks about me … http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId%2C111226.

Ego Surfing sure reveals interesting things. One of the few could be searching for SAURABH GARG on YAHOO returns a page where 9 out of 10 resuts talk about me 😀 Can’t stop grinning !

Another update … I finished reading Honour Among Thieves by Jeffery Archer and since I have run out of material to read, I am back to the good old Godfather… I am trying to remember the sequence of events now. Another option was FountainHead but unlike a lot of people I did’nt find it that “intellectually stimulating” !

Shall We Dance !!!!

Its been long since I posted something on my BLOG ! If I go by the records it would be 9 days. Lots of things have happened… Exams got over, started with vacations, started with learning finance fundas and waiting for summer internship to start.

I was back in campus and happened to go for the latest flick – SHALL WE DANCE. Featuring Richard Gere, J Lo and Susan Sarandon … was a nice time pass. As always when I was watching the movie, I tried to be the protagonist and apply my brain at that hard task called thinking… Throughout the movie I was trying to anticipate, guess, what would be his next move, what would be the next dialouge … din’t get that lucky today, was wrong most of the times. I know I can’t dance ;).

Again talking about the movie itself, the movie was based in dunno which city but there were quite a few shots of the skyscapers… I had this funny feeling of going to the city at once. Would build the greatest sky scraper of em all. Talking of building reminds me of FountainHead by Ayn Rand. Before I read this one, I thought Ayn Rand was a male but it turned out that Ayn Rand is a female. Anyways while reading, I could connect at times with Roark, Waynand and Toohey. No no, am not trying to say am the coolest but a trying to say that at times I was thinking what they were thinking. I plan to read it once more before I write something about it.

Ever since we had vacatoins, have read two more fictions. Both by Grisham. Runaway Jury and King of Torts. As always both were amazing. However they failed to inspire me to be a lawyer like the previous ones. Probably the main character in both these was’nt someone exceptional. I can compare the chap from Runaway Jury – whats his name, with Ellsworth Monkton Toohey in the FountainHead. Both of them could persude people to do things that people would’nt have done under normal circmstances. I would certianly like to do that. Talk of evil 😉

I have started with vacations and have absolutely nothing to do at home. I plan to re-learn guitar (as if I knew it in the first place), re-bulid my website (as if I had it in first place), re-gain my position as the richest person on the planey (as if I was)… Of the three things mentioned above, I plan to achieve atleast two. They say two months is a long long time to do anything. I might even re design the BLOG if I don’t find anything else to do.

And abhi I am out of ideas what to talk about and what to write etc…

Gaming and Flashing at its best !

is a place where you could find the famous Crimson Room and Viridian Room RPGs. I got these games accidently when I was looking for a few flash games online.

The creator of these famous “rooms” – Takagism (I hope I got his name correct) is truely a master of the trade.

He has combined two things that have truely facinated me. Computer Gaming and Creativity. Let me start with the gaming part first. I statred with games very early and statred with Mario, Contra etc. and I still remember playing Tiny Toons at a shop near my place. Then MAC happened and kAgE introduced me to the wonderful world of REAL computer gaming. I had played DOS games like Writer Rabbit and Bricks before but the real gaming started at the cafe near our college and on the LAN between me and kAgE. It was mostly Quake 3 Arena but the important thing was that I got attracted towards it like anything. Then it was Babel where I had a chance to feel the action on the consoles. Amongst them, it was the GBA SP that I thought was the coolest.

Flash – The Macromedia product. I have been using since version 4 and now they are upto version MX. Things have changed. Macromedia as a copmany has given a lot to the internet. There was a time when it was mandatory to have a flash intro for every website. Although things have changed but still the amount of funtionality that can be given to a static page is awesome. Hats off to the creators of this wonderful software.

Coming back to the original rooms… I must admit that I was not able to solve the puzzles but as they say you can find stuff on the internet and I googled my way to glory. Talking of google brings me to another question. Which amongst the Google and Yahoo is better … (Reason is that when I search for my name on both these search engines, on one, I am on the top of the world and on another I am just another jack in the town).

I am famous !!!!

I always thought, how nice it would be to know someone famous and be a celebrity. I would get to boast about my rezendovous with the rich and famous. My friends would be envious and jealous of me …

My wish was suddenly granted one fine day when I recieved the following mail …

Dear Friend,

I am Mrs. Suha Arafat, the wife of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader who died recently in Paris. Since his death and even prior to the announcement, I have been thrown into a state of antagonism, confusion, humiliation, frustration and hopelessness by the present leadership of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the new Prime Minister. I have even been subjected to physical and psychological torture. As a widow that is so traumatized, I have lost confidence with everybody in the country at the moment.

You must have heard over the media reports and the Internet on the discovery of some fund in my husband secret bank account and companies and the allegations of some huge sums of money deposited by my husband in my name of which I have refuses to disclose or give up to the corrupt Palestine Government.

In fact the total sum allegedly discovered by the Government so far is in the tune of about $6.5 Billion Dollars. And they are not relenting on their effort to make me poor for life. As you know, the Moslem community has no regards for woman, more importantly when the woman is from a Christian background, hence my desire for a foreign assistance.

I have deposited the sum of 21 million dollars with a Security financial firm in whose name is withheld for now until we open communication. I shall be grateful if you could receive this fund into your bank account for safe keeping and Investment opportunity. This arrangement will be known to you and I alone and all our correspondence should be strictly on email alone because our government has tapped all my lines and are monitoring all my moves.

In view of the above, if you are willing to assist for our mutual benefits, we will have to negotiate on your Percentage share of the $21,000,000 that will be kept in your position for a while and invested in your name for my trust pending when my Daughter, Zahwa, will come off age and take full responsibility of her Family Estate/inheritance. Please, if you are honest, I am going to entrust more funds in your care as this is one of the legacy we keep for our children. In case you don’t accept please do not let me out to the security and international media as I am giving you this information in total trust and confidence I will greatly appreciate if you accept my proposal in good faith and send to me your complete personal contact information.

May God bless you and your household.

Yours sincerely,

Suha Arafat
Reply to suuh_43@yahoo.it

Wow … Yasser Arafat knows me !

Disclaimer: This post is not about the great leader but this is about the spam that floats around on the internet …