Author: SG

Happy Birthday – Sandeep Agarwal

Sandeep Agarwal aka Sandy aka Sandiago celebrated his 126th birthday on 27th March at MDI. With his birthday, he is officially a member of the oldie club at MDI. Other notable members are Nishant Nigam, Amrit Rao Pejawar, Shiva Kumar Chikkamath, Siddharth Sinha, Sandeeep Pandya… and few more names… They are so old that I can’t remember their names. They have been lost long time away.

So dear Sandy was so exited about his birthday that he sent a mail to the entire batch himself and asked people to come out and give him a bashing.

Talking about birthdays and bashings, I hate being a friend of someone who has a birthday. Reason being the free kicks and smearing with the cake that you get …

More to follow soon (may be after the exams…?)

Blow Your Head Off At Every Small Thing

MR. “blow your head off at every small thing” …

There is a very cute friend on mine who gave me this name about 5 minutes back. I don’t know how someone can call me that when I think I am never pissed off at anything. I am ready to take whatever comes my way…

But if she says so, I really have to ponder upon it. After all she is a very very good friend and if she says so, it ought to be true.

She would do anything I tell her to and is one of those people whom I can depend on. Just that she can be very very irritating at times. Another thing to talk about her would be the time keeping abilites. She always makes sure that she is on time. I know she has to get ready, have breakfast, call people up, she is busy but she would always be on time ! (… Intelligent people would have decoded this ;))

Thinkin …

Happy Holi

Holi the festival of colors is here and its that time of the year when you have loads and loads of fun !

Wishing everyone a colorful and happy H O L I !!!!

This is a small naration of what happened at the MDI hostel on holi …
It was about 8 in the morning and the entire hostel was as good as dead. Then suddenly, this DholWala enters the hostel and wow all the people are up in a flash. Then someone of us realizes that the ladies are still sleeping. So the DholWala is routed towards the girls hostel. The obvious happened.

As all of us gathered behind the academic block, there was a pit full of mud water, eggs, what not and we all were thrown – yes THROWN – in the pit and then follwoed buckets full of the same mixture.

Then there was a round of Bhaang and few people who never knew the taste of something as divine as alcohol were found doing interesting things.

Anyways we had a fun filled day and was one of those days that I won’t forget after passing out of MDI.

The Itchy and Scratchy Show !

The Itchy and Scratchy Show is very famous among Bart, Lisa and friends and they are very famous among me and few friends and I want to be famous some day…

Coming to the point, if people have been reading my BLOG regularly, they would have noticed that I have a piece of IBM ThinkPad KQ1 R51. I even talked about it here. The issue is that its just 3 months old and I already have a broken key. The latest accident or should I say certificate of excellence would be the four scratches that I have put on the display of the computer !

Yes four BIG scratches on the LCD. Somehow it has to happen that I want to keep my things in perfect order and I end up messing them.

Anyways the scratches are so fine that only a few lucky people (who have been gifted with a far stretched vision) would be able to notice it.

Removing se.dll

I posted this title few days back and people have been coming to the website askin for this very thing.

My comp was infected with se.dll and I tried every thing that was listed on the websites and could not do it. Had to waste a couple of nights but finally I found a way. Although I corrupted the Windows Search (that I rarely used) but the se.dll thingy has been removed and I am very happy about it.

If ever someone uses what I tell here, please understand that s/he is doing things at own risk and I am just listing here what I did. I would not recommend anyone to follow the steps.

Step 1. Restart the comp in Windows XP Safe Mode (F8)
Step 2. Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe)
Step 3. Search for all the instances of Search Assistant and delete them. This would screw the Windows Search.
Step 4. Start msconfig (msconfig.exe), delete an entry called sp.XXX.
Step 5. Search for a four lettered exe file having a size 32 KB and delete that also. This might screw up some other stuff also. Worked for me, others might not be as lucky.
Step 6. Say thanks to me and restart.

I would add more in the mean time but I recommend searching on google rather than on yahoo about this and I am sure you would find it. Also Norton Anti Virus 2004 is able to remove this hook up. I tried other AV software but none of them worked but Norton.

No No No

A friend rad my BLOG and told me that it looks like a directory of all the girls in your college and that you are going around with all of them.

I have got only one word for her – NO.

And I have decided to start referring to friends as friends. Let me not get human by taking their names on a public place.

P.S.: As far as I know, only few people get time to visit my BLOG. And no :p:D you are not the friend that has made me reomve all the names from the BLOG.

As I am writing this, an !dea struck me. Why not codify names… ? What I would do is that I would give code names to people and then use these code names to talk about them. I know this would be a rip off from Priyadarshini @ USC but as they say – You must adopt the best practices …

DL 1S M 8101

DL 1S M 8101 – The Yamaha RX 135. Sandyz Bike.

When my dear Kawasaki Bajaj Caliber Croma (with disk brakes) is not working, this is the bike that I roam around on.

I can recall four incidents when I was out with someone on this bike, and the petrol finished. I had to drag the bike to a good distance.

Twice I was with Aastha and guess what, next moment I was dragging the bike with her. Luckily I found the petrol pump in the next instant.

Next I went shopping with Surbhi and while coming back from Delhi (yes from Delhi) I had to drag the bike all the way from Delhi to Gurgaon over the border.

Next I was out to get a cake with Shubhi and as usual I was found dragging a bike to the Cake Castle. This time I had to call Jeetu and he came all the way from library to the Sector 14 market to rescue us from the place.

Bottom line… even though the bike is Yamaha, roads are ok, city is Gurgaon, I have great people to take along with me but somehow I don’t have a bike. And when I have it, its the same good old RX 135.

I think its a jinx. Whenever I am out with someone male… it somehow never happens and when its the ladies, it it bound to happen !

Bike, my life, when ever I am down, very happy, very sad, I just need to go out on a bike for a ride …

India vs Pakistan – Cricket !!!!

India vs Pakistan – Cricket !!!!

Cricket – My Life. As Ashutosh Rana says “aap cricket mujhe sey khilwa leejiye, dikha leejiye, bulwa leejiye, kahin bhi josh main kami nahin hogi”… These lines are applicable to me in evey sense of the world.

I dunno when the fascination for cricket began and I dunno when I started playing but I always knew I am a HUGE cricket fan. There have been times when I got bored of the 22 people chasing a mere ball for one full day or at times on five days at a stretch.

I would like to copy a quote from the soccer world…

“Some people say soccer (cricket) is a matter of life and death…
They are stupid…

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It’s much more than that”

Cricket for me has always been about trying hard, turning the tables when odds are stacked against you, taking on the most diffcilt competition, team spirit, rivalry, learning and fun. I could have found more adjectives if my vocabulary was a bit more diverse.

There might be a question … how come cricket after so long and so sudden… Reason would be PD. I was talking to her this morning and suddenly we start talking about the current India Pakitstan series. Its day five and India needs a few wickets to defeat Pakistan and the tailenders are very resilient. They are not giving up !

We were talking about online commentry and how to watch the matches online and suddenly I get this feeling that somehow I want to be close to the game. TV room is so far fform my room that if I started walking, I could become the protagnist of the famous Johnie Walker campaign … Keep Walking. Then i thought may be online commentry but rejected it. And finally I thought lets get famous. Why not put something on the Dear Blog.

By the way another thing happened… As I was writing this, there was yet another power failure and the entire thing got lost. I was talking to Pd and am sure she would have ran away by now to her best half. But thanks to my dear software, I was able to recover back whatever was said and written and typed.

Talking about Cricket yet again, my favorite players over the years have been Robin Singh (now retired), ofcourse Sachin Tendulkar, Brian McMillan (retired), Late Hansie Cronje :-(. Now since I have touched upon him, I would want to talk about him… I dunno…

Javed Akhtar – Kyonki Fighter Hamesha Jeet-ta Hai …

Zidagi Hai To Khwab Hain,
Khwab Hai To Manzilain Hain,

Manzilain Hai To Faasle Hain,
Faasle Hai To Raaste Hain,
Raaste Hai To Mushkilain Hain,
Mushkilain Hain To Hausla Hain,

Hausla Hai To Vishwas Hai,

Kyonki Fighter Hamesha Jeet-ta Hai.

These words were penned by Javed Akhtar for an advertisement for a brand called Rotomac Fighter.

This ad was on television long long time ago and a few days ago, I just felt like listening to the jingle. It took me time to get the advert from MagIndia and when I got it, I was SO happy.

As I was writing this post, I was thinking about this writing instruments company in India that was bubbling on to the scene and had at one point of time challenged the authority of interntional giant Reynolds. I think the pens they made were great and they had good reach. The media promotion campaigns were also good. They had huge stars like Javed Akhtar and Raveena Tandon working for them. Today no one probably remembers the company and the brand. This would definately become a nice case for strategy course… I would love to see what Prof. Amit Kapoor would want to say about it.

Talking about Javed Akhtar now…
Hes got a talent with words. I don’t realy know what all lyrics he has penned down but I have a lets say brand association of Javed Akhtar with great lyrics. The advertisement that I have talked about above is a case in point here. (I learnt this new term – case in point – in one of the classes at my PGPM).

Wish I could write as well as Javed Saheb and stand upto my promise of a poem to P…