SLEEP

With or Without You

It was such an awesome show put by U2, YouTube for You all(including me).

I cant wait to see the traffic reports within the Internet core links tomorrow, when I wake up.

Awesome state of mind before I sleep. The song ringing on my head - with or without you.

Pretty Much Nothing!

So a long weekend is coming to an end. One of the reasons I am writing this is to keep up with doing things that I have ignored for too long. Recently, something weird has happened to me. I have many to-dos at work and outside work. But I haven't been able to concentrate or even take my time out to do the work. With writing this, I am opening up a sliding window with a buffer of time(60*60s). I hope by the end of it, i would be able to look back and feel like I have accomplished at least a thing. Yes, I wrote a blog entry! After quite long!

A pretty nice movie is ON and actually its getting interesting by the minute. I might even finish off the movie first. Its called New York City Serenade. Or rather keep this blog post short. Or Multi-task - May be.

If this blog acts as a reminder, Please note the deadlines, ELF!

- By the end of September, you gotta submit the Chapter to your Professor for review before publishing it. At the same time, Talk to him about the draft of the other paper you submitted and work on it too.

- You have to complete a presentation by tomorrow's end and I know you dont even have the details of what-to-present. Work on it either today, or tomorrow! DONT FORGET!

- Go ahead and buy a nice traveling suitcase for next week. Call friends and Make sure you let me know you're gonna visit them after the workshop. You suck at keeping up with relationships.

- Work out a little more. It really helps you rejuvenate of all the stress that you have been into lately. Trust me! And do some more crunches too.

- You are NOT a singer. So stop singing like you are. But anyway, talk to your brother about what songs you might want to play on the concert few months later. Perhaps that'd be a nice time to have a vacation too. Arrange for it at your work.

- Get used to doing things alone. Go to Movies alone, Restaurants alone, Events alone. One of the reasons you're not yourself is because you think you need a company to have fun. NO! You need your will and yourself! Just dont drink and drive. Learn to have fun without drinking out. You may always drink @ home.

- Prioritize Life's important matters. Work for it a little more than how you are doing right now. But please make sure, you know what you are doing, rather than just doing it for the heck of it. I know overtime, you have come up to be a pretty focused, determined individual. Still, work on it more!

I cant think much as of right now, but when you read this .. Remember these words are tied with a WHIP.

1-hr story (Fiction)

A man walking down the aisle fell down. Turns out he was fat. Turns out the center of Mass fell right on his belly. He stood up thinking about all the Junk food he had till this day. Cursed Wendy's and walked away.

***

A fat lady struggling hard to cross the intersection put a man taking the right turn into fumes.

"Hey, Fat Bitch! Can you do any better than this?"

The fat lady tried walking a little fast but she couldnt. This man had a fight with his wife over the uncalled-for expenditure that the wife put on her dresses. The Man worked on a pretty good company but was always with a fear of getting laid off, while his wife worked as a teacher in a neighboring middle school. She had to look pretty and she had to show off more than they could afford.

***

A nice M6 Coupe parks in front of a low-cost-rent apartment parking lot. He looks like he got all in his pocket, if not his bank account. Shiny Shoes and Shiny Armor! Almost a Black Knight! Walks straight onto the stairs to APT 420 and rings the bell. Almost two hours later, the man comes down and drives away and never to be seen in another 3-6 months.

***

I go to college and I don't earn f()cking money. I spend most of my money on tuition and watch the world as it is. I don't think its even worth earning for all the trouble it seems to give to people. I enjoy seeing people and checking out their DRAMA! I enjoy thinking about where they are heading to and what they have become when they don't seem to have the slightest clue of what they are looking for.

Today I hear three news from my friends.

* Microsoft is laying off 5000 workers. Microsoft is the reason why I was studying, MAN!
* One of my friends' girlfriend moved away from his life since he was a douche-bag. (I always thought douche-bag "too" deserve to be loved).
* XMING is asking for donations and they would allow you to download only when you donate money. I thought Open Source was ......

"STOP IT! GEEKS FAIL! I MEAN GEEKS FAIL TOO!"

Me and my friends were DREAMERS in college. We dreamt about an start-up on somebody's basement someday. My Mom used to tell me "Never give up on what you want to do. It is not the satisfaction of achieving it, It is the satisfaction of getting close". Looked like everyone of my friends believed the same. Or at least, their Moms told them the same thing.

We had started this college website where guys could register and trade stuff! The sole motivation 'though' was not to be like MARK but you know try to get attention of CATHY.

"MARK WHO?"

Mark Zuckerberg!

"Ohh! Dream on F()ckerberg!"

Sure. Will do!

***

I am at this bar and this lady looks at me like she wants to talk to me. She comes close to me and says "Can you buy me a drink?". No, I reply! She goes away. I take out my blackberry and post a status in facebook.

"Why cant some people buy their own drink?"
45 mins ago
"Woooooo. Whats the matter, bud?"
25 mins ago
"Ke bhayo. GF lai ho? hehehe"
10 mins ago
"Are you broke Dude? Tell me, I will give you some money. You know what you gotta do ;) "
5 mins ago
"Asshole"
1 min ago

An interesting thing I note is my girlfriend likes the status.

***

I suddenly get an urge to write something. Something that just goes random. Not in any order, nor in any motive or in any sense. Like something you can write and forget and never have to think about again. Writers don't think much either is what I always believed. And No I am not a writer.

So there is your 1-hour story, which proves Boredom breeds Insanity! Print it and Wipe your Nose with it!

Thanks & Regards.
ELF

BECK, YOU DID IT!

BECK'S!

America's No. 1 imported beer from Germany!

That is how the weekend kicks off formally. And No I ain't drunk yet. I have promises to keep and a long way to go before I sleep.

First Question. Have you ever cared about someone so much that you want them to appear in the scene when they think its the right time, than you thinking NOW is the right time?

Second Question. Have you ever felt so helpless and restless that someone you really care for is having some tough times and you are not really there to care for?

Third Question. Have you ever thought about the consequences that follows when they think you didn't do your best whereas you thought you'd just wait from an input from them.

Fourth Question. Is it always you have to "PROVE" something or some things are just so obvious you can do NOTHING!

I am stopping the questions, apparently of the fear of being called a DRUNK BLOGGER.

Prayers to God, and Blessings to my Sperm!
ELF

And tonight

I sleep with so many questions in my head!

So , is ELF dead already?

The simple answer is NO.

"PROVE IT"

Sure. Here he is!

Life has been rolling dice(s) on him. He's been changing places, circles, employers! Blame it on the employers not able to sustain him for long cos of their companies running on budget-deficit investment/growth. Well and blame it on him too cos he doesn't want to stick to one as there is always a better opportunity ahead.

He moves from Midwest to Northeast and is driving down West pretty soon. Actually next Sunday, he's setting off for the longest trip he's ever taken. Boston to Phoenix. Talk about "changes" in his life!

"Neologism" has vanished from his life, it seems. Last time he coined a word was "Freaktards" when he was storming out in anger. You know that means "Freaking B***tards" right? Most of all, now he got people wary about his words and thoughts and actions. He was complaining about a group of people calling him a man whore. That is how he stands out and he cant help people judging him either. But he felt it was good letting such company off his life that does NOT criticism but plain HATRED. He said to me later, he was not upset about being called a man whore, but upset about losing respect a little that he ever had among the peers he hung out with. Good thing about Online relationships is you can let go pretty easy!

The reason for this blog is NOT vents! Its rather something interesting.

Most of the visitors to this blog come from Google. And you might find it weird, but the keyword that makes the highest number of unique visitors is "Ravan". May be you can get lucky with that keyword as well. And Mind it, I have nothing, whatsoever, concerned with Ramayan or Ravan in my personal blog.

But even interesting. Today, there was a visitor from tang-one-thirty-three.mit.edu with following credentials.
Referrer http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how+to+screw+a+professor
Search Engine Google
Keywords how, screw, professor

Talk about the students anywhere. They want to screw their professors so bad no matter the expertise! : )

Will be back shortly.

So - is it a new beginning?

Great Anticipations, of course!

New President, New Status, New Job, New Place(May be), New Circle(May be), New Band. There's so much to look forward to. 2008 had been eventful no doubts, but would 2009 stand up to its mark? Perhaps new ventures that is incomparable to the ones in 2008. Surety : I'll be Off Academics and would plan to be off a little longer this time. Forever? Shall see.

To Mark 2008's achievements, they even added a LEAP SECOND. Who they - dont ask!

There was a nice turnout of crowd on the "Mojo Rides" concert. Had some stunts and more important- tried to improve on performance spirits! It was superb, at least, on my standards. Too bad - didn't capture the excitement. Good though that some moments last for a three hour span, and memories of it last forever!

Changes are bound to happen in the year ahead, but 2008 remained pretty as what i had expected.

Expectations and Predictions and Wishes!

=> YAHOO! - please seriously consider revising efforts! I am a big fan of YAHOO! no matter how they suck now - in economic terms! I hope i were in the 2000 era and made predictions! I would have predicted YAHOO would buy Google sometime around in 2002. But wait, i didnt even start blogging then. I was too busy with Yahoo Geocities! And the deal maker was a sucker!

=> OMAHA - A growing city, A revering affection cos i've stayed in here for too long for me to be staying at any place. You're a growing city - but increase the pace. Acknowledge and accept changes to its best! With the advent of three giants MS, Yahoo! and Google, Now you'd have to lure plenty start-ups! Good Luck for the years ahead.

=> POKHARA - Not been to PKR, for some years now. But, same with you! Hope you catch up the investors and build more businesses and keep comparable to the capital city.

=> ELF - F you Dude! You don't even deserve a prediction. I know you'd sloth bad! But Hopefully, you'd spend more time productive than talking to random people, talking random things and being a ROMEO around! I know you wont! ; ) You're a born flirt!

Happy New Year wishes to all!

Cognition!

I am equally 'unaware' of the word as you probably are. So lets drill this together!

cog·ni·tion n. The mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.

How would you think that your knowledge differs from that of your peers? Do you even believe it does? Or are you the one who's looking for a peer with a perfect match always? Do you equally argue as you agree to each other?

I have been an ardent admirer of "differences". I talk to people to know how different the individual is. Of course, i got a swelled head when we run into arguments. But hey, you should know that could be one of our differences. Or May be, which probably is, one of our commonalities!

For example, Mumbai Attack - IMO is because of the difference of opinion between blatant religious followers who never learnt to respect differences. Or, the massive jobs cut along with the continually downward economy - IMO is because of cognitive dissonance, ultra optimism or pessimism. Put a considerable difference margin before you make a decision.

Differences do not necessarily lead to destruction. Some people make a difference - so they lead. Differences is one of the sole reason we come up with great ideas. Had it not been different ways of cognition on things, i'd have been scribing these words on some rock.

I wouldnt say let there be no religion as John Lennon said. I say let there be differences among us, but let us learn to appreciate, collaborate and move forward learning from the differences we possess. Let there be many cultures, diverse faces in the community, and let us just change our thoughts - to appreciate that we have different thoughts and that we are all different!

It is complex i know - cos that beats the whole purpose of being different when we all agree to have similar thoughts. But hey, why not make it a commonality while you still remain different in many other things!

Pretty Long, huh!

It came to me that this place was abandoned. The place i was FOR myself , the place i was WITHIN me and the place where i apparently had verbal orgies! Or is that an overstatement?

Lots happened, and no updates - i must have been lazy!

Got an internship at an organization that promises me full time and sponsorship and what not! And a verse strikes me "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But i have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep". Its a good time nevertheless, seeing that networks over here are equally messy/mismanaged as it was in my `con-tree`. I guess, that's what i got hired for. And though not bounded to wireless only, i am a wireless engineering intern. Lots of line ups for things that i need to study for the RF and signals domain. It is interesting though.

Few weeks back , i played on a concert opening up for some established artists. With so much respect for them, we went on a bar after our performance! And when we came back, the show had finished. Luckily, people called at the middle of their show and said, we want you guys back in stage, as people are running away! I am sure, they played good music, but may be they lacked dashing performers! If you know what i mean! Youth Power! Or, may be the guy who called was just a young crowd too! We are all YOUNG - if you ask me. The band formed in some 2 weeks' time before the show and we called it "MOJO". Utter it once, and you're sure to do it again! "MOJO MOJO"! There you go.

We do have a concert lined up within a month from now, so if you happen to pass by, you're welcome to attend. It'd mostly be Nepali 'rock' numbers along with Steppenwolf's born to be wild! (heavy metal thunder) and may be an iron maiden track "losfer words". We still got a month. We jammed this weekend for a start, and it wasnt bad at all. Guys were enthusiastic about making it happen this time!

So, what else?

Academics - Talk NOT!

Sleep - my sleeping pattern has changed!

Relationship - Oh well! No date.

Hair - I had some spikes few days before. It wasn't that bad either.

Alcohol - Do i even need to say? I just got back with memories of German beers at Oktoberfest yesterday.

Places - None. I seem to love my zip code! : ) (Commute to work - exception)

Trauma/Insanity - it seems to be in a dormant stage! Somebody wake the Satan in me!

And i am suddenly blank. I will try to frequent more. Please enjoy the song!