Whimsical Idioticisms

The Foot-in-the-mouth disease

2006-12-26T17:00:14Z

It really feels good to know that I am not the only one who has a penchant for these. Although being classified with Dubya is a pain.

Wired - 2006 Footin-Mouth Awards

kookygoblin can attest to more on this :)

Shutterbug

2006-12-25T17:11:45Z

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1566933,00.html

The Nikon D40. My next big buy? :)

Kenny & his brother

2006-12-02T13:57:24Z

Kenny & his brother
Originally uploaded by thefirstidiot.

Red Bull has some enormous enthusiasm. And they seem very fond of our campus for some reason.
They brought over the n-times (think it was some God awful figure like 11) X-Games world champion to our campus for stunts. Go figure.

But it was amazing. The things these guys can do with bikes is unimaginable. The pic you see here is just a mild version. The video says it all. Lots of fun - and free Red Bull

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1494018872

Objections!!

2006-11-27T12:18:26Z

You would think that since I am the prime wearer of a French beard, the primary objection would come from me (and of course my better half). But no, everyone seems to object.

1. It makes you look old (chee - thats a surprise considering that I am already called the old man of the class)
2. You look like a south Indian villian (wow - I consider it a compliment - they look better than the heroes at least)
3. Doesn't it itch (I'm a masochist)
4. Ewwwwwwwwww (Yeah thats from a girl - no surprises there)
5. Oh, you look so sexy in this (no - I do NOT get this. Its just wishful thinking)

Judge for yourself.

Forever?

2006-11-26T15:14:57Z

I just watched Being John Malkovich a couple of days back, and it got me thinking. How would you like to live forever?

Frankly, even if you discount the physical problems, and say that you can live a perfectly healthy life forever, would you like it? I wouldn't. Is it a sign of our times, or is it only me? Or has immortality been a curse forever? I remember Mahabharata where Bheeshma couldn't die until he wanted to.

What would I do if I lived forever? Or lets even say for a looooong time? I remembered this Larry Niven series based on the Protector, Ptaavs and Jack Brenner. Guardian of humankind. Can I avoid getting bored if I live that long?

Questions, questions. And no answers...

thefirstidiot @ 2006-11-24T14:40:00

2006-11-24T09:10:35Z

Ok folks, me back (again)
Look at this photo and comment ;). I call it the battle of the bulge :)

Misc

On a more serious note...something I just read, and for once made sense to me
http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2006/commentary06112226.htm

LOTR?

2006-09-19T15:26:38Z

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=138905

Superb.
I wish I could write like this. Some of them have got the author's style down pat

Things which you remember at 3 in the night

2006-09-15T21:48:37Z

When you are trying to study and feeling bored
1. Food
2. Food
3. Ok, progress. I move on to Books which I need to read. And decide to make a list. And decide that its too much work.
4. Food. Damn, regressing again
5. Cadbury's Fruit and Nut. This is different from food. Its manna from heaven.
6. Games - I want to play futsal now
7. Sleep - mankind's - rather MBAkinds worst affliction

Ok, enough.

Update: 4:30 in the morning.
No fool coming to the canteen...

Et Tu Latin?

2006-08-24T11:07:26Z

"Cogito, Ergo Sum" - Sounds familiar, hmmm? Here are a few more takes on this and other famous non English lines...

http://www.furthermoreraven.org/classics.html

Hiilarious is the only word for it

End

2006-08-09T23:45:09Z

Mid terms over!!!! :):)
1:45PM - last midterm ends
1:45 - 2:30 stand around and laugh
2:30 - 3:05 - play tsepak
3:05 - 4:30 - Go to Pizza corner and hog
4:30 - 5:15 - Play Pocket tanks with Kenny (and I lost 3/5)
5:15 - sleep (alarm set for 7:45)
9:22 - get up (severely overslept. Missed meeting A on rakshabandhan :((((( Not normal. Guess the pressure was off)
9:22 - 10:45 - Spam my entire section and chat on Bracket (Internal messenger)
10:45 - Go to the canteen, eat, play pool, laugh, chat
11:30 tsepak night starts
2:30 - Back to room after playing tsepak for 3 hrs. Time for AOE
4:30 - Finish playing AOE
5:30 - Sleep
This was 5:30 in the morning. And I have a lecture at 10:15. not even 5 hrs of sleep now :(

Hehehehe...nice time. Aftereffect - Cuts on the feet, Neck Sprained, Eyes red and exhausted

:)

Mid-terms

2006-08-05T12:56:39Z

One and a half months have flown by. And I have mid-terms on Monday...:(

Speak and thou shalt shiver

2006-07-31T11:58:13Z

Why is it that even after so many presentations, so many talks in front of so many people, each time I still end up shivering before I go up against the wall (as I see it:))

Another presentation done, another 20% of my grade for this subject done. Noticeable improvements though. But the nervousness just does not go away. Ah well, lets see what I say about it in another two years at IIMB.
Continuing on the same subject, the seniors here are so much more confident, so much more able to talk in front of an audience...Is that what one year in this place does to you? Not bad then, it will probably be my biggest takeaway from here :):)

Blah Blah

2006-07-27T19:54:42Z

Writing SOPs or "Statements of Purpose" for the uninitiated, seems to be a large part of my job here at IIMB. Bah!

My First Book

2006-07-26T06:51:09Z

At the IIMB Campus. Its been a month without reading, and finally I decided to take some time out. A leisurely morning spent reading R K Narayan's "The Guide". Ahhh the bliss. Cold weather, a hot cup of coffee at the snack joint and no friends around :):)

Lovely book, and a style of writing that I have not been used to before. IIMB has a novel library run by students (different from the official one), and a variety of books that made me smile. Its in a converted toilet, in a small corner of the hostel, can you believe it?

Though, a lot less people here who like books...

Quota Raj

2006-05-24T06:45:34Z

A few links which may be interesting
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/decision-on-quota-is-final-the-chapter-is-closed/11063-4.html

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/its-official-quota-for-obcs-effective-from-june/11257-3.html

This PJ might actually soon be true!!

Manmohan Singh to Bush - -We are sending Indians to
the moon next year.

Bush - Wow! How Many?

Manmohan Singh - 100
25 - OBC
25 - SC
20 - ST
5 - Handicapped
5 - Sports Persons
5 - Terrorist Affected
5 - Kashmiri Migrants
9 - Politicians

and if possible
1 - Astronnaut

Heat Kills

2006-05-11T11:23:12Z

Power outages from 2-4:30 on a summer afternoon...arrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Black Gold

2006-04-26T10:07:38Z

Oil...black gold.
You know, I never really understood the importance of oil in our life. Yesterday, I came across this site
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

Believe me, it reads scarier than any other novel I have read. Stephen King cannot hold a candle to this. All the information is already available at our fingertips. This guy has just compiled it into one blog.

Midnight Oil

2006-04-21T19:11:32Z

I wonder, sitting up late at night,
Itna kyon maar raha hoon fight,
To stay awake,
Playing a game, real or fake,
When sleep seems like bliss in my sight.

Yeah yeah, not one of my best ones I know. But at 12:34 at night, its a little sifficult (oops make that difficult) to be coherent. Everyone has gone to sleep, and tomorrow is a holiday. I wonder, and ponder and so on and forth, why am I awake?

Philosophically, maybe to quest for the meaning in life? (The answer is 42...I defintiely know that at this point of time. A session with some vodka will only enhance this fact)

Physically, to make sure that my body is as unfit and unhealthy as possible. And the fact that the bed feels hard.

Mentally, to drag out the calm and peaceful end of a day when I can spend some time wihtout anyone around me...and maybe sit on the net and surrrrffff and do nothing.

I guess is just sheer cussedness because I feel that sleep is a waste of time, when there are so many other things to be done.
Of course this is valid only when i am awake. When i get up in the morn, it goes the other way around!

tahdah

2006-04-16T18:34:15Z

A couple of things have happened in the last few days.

1. The IIMs came out with their results. Got through to Bangalore finally! Its such a relief, although you dont realize this until after the event. The aftermath makes you realize you were sooo tense. Also got through to C, L, K. Also had IIFT, IIT B as backups and XLRI waitlisted. I had left ISB earlier. Really had wanted to get A or B after giving up ISB, and now am glad I had.

2. Am getting engaged! 14th May is D-day...am really lucky to have her...:):):):) Words are not enough to say more.

Crap

2006-04-07T07:22:06Z

A bad headache. Nightmares.
No interest in work.
6 hours to leave office.
Sleepy.
No incentive.
18 days left in Infy.
Charger lost, and 2 new chargers blown.
No cell.

Not a nice last 12 hrs.

MICA

2006-04-04T17:27:54Z

A long drive to Abad and back. A car loaded with luggage (can you believe we had more than 10 bags?). Seeing people who have lived in the same hostel together for the last two years. Seeing a girl who initially refused to like her college sniff at the thought of leaving it.

An eventful weekend. Had gone for my sister's conovocation at MICA Ahmedabad.

Allergies

2006-03-30T13:59:03Z

I am allergic to crab as well! And it is so tasty...

Cooked

2006-03-25T19:19:44Z

After a long time I cooked!
Mushroom Masala, Dal and Jeera Rice, all cooked between 8:50 and 9:50. Everything from chopping to cleaning up the remnants. And it turned out great (at least people said so, and thats all I care about).

Here is to my parents, and my four friends who survived the ordeal!

Sea Gherkin!

2006-03-24T19:45:47Z

"Interplanetary goat" is now one of my names for one of my favorite people...

Creative use of swear words is such fun to read! I spent hours going through Tintins after finishing them to check out the gaalis Captain Haddock gave. I mean, can you imagine the reaction after you called someone an ostracized, pockmarked, lily livered land lubber? Either they are zonked, or if they have read Tintin, they call you an ectoplasmic body snatcher with billions of blue blistering barnacles :)

Bashi-Bazouk!

http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/lists/curses.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Haddock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exclamations_used_by_Captain_Haddock

Old Photos

2006-03-17T13:22:08Z

All is well in the world of Ashwin, and I am back on LJ. I just looked at the last time I posted, and it was Sep 22nd...Looooong time ago.

Since then I have studied for CAT, come back to India, walked umpteen miles in Bombay with Aditi (rather ricked...we prefer rickshaws :)), got back to work, work, work...and now completed more than 4 months.

Was just going through old photos and wondering who is where...