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July 12, 2005

Robot Astrology ...

The other day we decided to take our Accent to a temple for its pooja and we reached there by 3:30 . Now the temple is generally closed between 3pm – 5pm so we decided to finish off with the car pooja first and by the time it got over it was 4:30 and we had full 30 min before the temple doors opened for us. I was hoping for someone to call me so that I could while away the time.

At this instant my brother decides to try this so-called-computer-astrology. Now here my technical brain starts smiling …” Dude , you gotto be very dumb to try it out “ ..thats because , if you look at it carefully …you’ll see that all you need to do is to put on the earphones and the guy presses some weird switches and voila!! You can straightaway here your future read out to you by some sibyllic female voice. So you see…

# You hear something that has already been recorded and kept in the robot toy

# It doesn’t take any dynamic values ( excuse my tech lingo :P ) like your name , date of birth , your sunsign or any damn thing that can be professed to determine your future.

# So, technically you’re listening to a pre-recorded static stuff which is merely decided by the switches the guy’s gonna press.

# The least important one -> It costs just Rs.2 ..I know things are pretty cheap in
India but then this cheap means that you’re definitely not gonna get what you’re paying for.

So he comes back and tells me that its 95% true and he was amazed with the way he could correlate it to his life.Now this invoked a natural curiosity in me. I wanted to give him my technical explanation but then decided to try it myself before saying anything.

As soon as I put on the headphones, the guy presses a switch and I could hear rewinding of tapes and the usual click-sounds you hear in a taperecorder while playing it. Suddenly a female voice starts off saying that according to the scanning it has done ( forgot to mention ..there were a couple of meters like your fuel indicators which keep fluctuating before the tape begins.) my lucky numbers were 2, 6 and 14 and that I’d live upto 80 yrs and some serious stuff of which every word was true. I was shocked ..First of all what did it scan and how and when ?? Secondly how on earth can the robot have a tape that talks stuff which was 100% percent relevant to me. This really freaked me out . So I decided to check its veracity by hearing it again. Now this time I was very watchful and the guy pressed the same switch . Again I hear the same sounds and the tape starts. Interestingly this time it was a different voice…and different content but…some interesting facts.

Both the voices told the same stuff in different words and voices . The only thing which had a conflict was concerned about my life-span . While one confirmed it to be 80yrs , the other confirmed it to be more than 75.And both told me the same lucky no.s . Both voices concorded about my pathetic money-management and how emotional I was and lottsa other stuff (mebbe later )…

Unbelievable ?? Believe it…(Yes , I really want to sound like the guy who hosts the Ripleys show on AXN )

So next time you see this thing do try it out and let me know …how true it was . If you think you can explain the funda behind this then do let me know…Till then I recommend everyone to try it out…

July 10, 2005

Rain, Rain & more Rain..

Wooow…seems like god has read my previous post and its raining cats and dogs in Hyderabad. Cyclones seems to have heard the prayers of the farmers and the roads are flooded. The happiest lot seems to comprise me and the farmers with this timely and relieving rains but it has brought its own share of woes to some . People can hardly get out of the house. But I’mnt complaining.

For the past few days I’ve been doing some work too…Finished a part of my assignment , started editing my class farewell video which i intend to deliver it at the gettogether.

Oops almost forgot to mention that a couple of my friends and I have decided to organize a gettogether for our class this coming saturday and that kept me busy for a couple of days. Have been calling all my classmates .Well these calls seemed to have therapeutic effect on me. It was such a nice feeling talking to them after a gap of one year and surprisingly we still enjoy the same kind of camarederie. Most of them have settled down with their jobs/M.Tech/M.S/M.B.A though a handful of them are still in search of their destiny.

Another exciting that happened was my dad finally bought a car . It’s a Hyundai Accent. He wanted to buy it for me since long( courtesy my IIT admit and I just cant tell you in words how much IIT means to him ..I’ll write about that sometime later ) .. but then my dad’s a lawyer and somehow all the banks seem to have some kinda animosity towards lawyers and the loan processing got stuck at some stage or the other . Finally HDFC called us and processed the whole thing in less than 3 days and finally I get to drive it home yesterday. HDFC rocks .

And the car is a-w-e-s-o-m-e . Its so smooth and sexy that you don’t feel like stopping and getting out of it and driving it when its raining like hell outside ..makes the ride wholesome …I felt so gooood that I literally wished “Dad should’ve owned a petrol bunk ….or atleast I hope that my prospective father-in-law owns one

So sad that I cant enjoy it for more than 2 weeks coz after that I’m gonna pack my things and leave for delhi and to make up for the less time I get to spend with it ..I intend to hit the road as much as I can.

For now…signing off to test my accent on the less-busy-but-horrible roads…

July 03, 2005

Midnight Ventures

For the past two days..I've become more of a nocturnal creature....Getting up at 9 in the morning and sleeping at 3 in the night...

No ..its got nothing to do with my joining b-skool(that's gonna start after 20 days ) I'm still in Hyd . Its been very long since our gang has met and freaked out late nights on the road and with Abhi coming from pune...we went on a full spree of movie-watching and freaking out on the roads till 2 in the night.

This is one of the things I'm gonna miss soon ...Riding on the empty and well-lit roads with cool breeze reminding you how worthless life is without these trivial but yet delightful pleasures. At times you tend to feel how futile your life has become by chasing your dreams at the stake of missing these pleasures.

Things that you can do at midnights ( after 12 )

#
Go on a long drive with ur gang ..Choose the roads which're empty , straight and well-lit (takes care of ur safety too)

# If you're a non-vegetarian then you might try a midnight biryani @ Bawarchi...Biryani never tastes so good :P

# Spend some time on your terrace gazing at the sky ...This gives you a good ambience to introspect and retrospect and mebbe plan your future ..

#
If you've got a group of equally insane friends like you then you might think of playing cricket too.. Havent done this in the recent years but yeah ..I've enjoyed every bit of it when I played some years back.

# Finally ..If you've got a gal/boy in your life and if you can afford to call each other @ that odd hour then go to the terrace and start calling rightaway. You can thank me for this tip through mail :P

PS : Dont ruin your midnight rides by having alchohol with it. Both are mutually exclusive and can be fatal if you try to do both.