Black Dog

Let me present to you a beautiful song that the legendary English Rock Stars played at the "Reunion concert, 02 Arena, London." on DEC 10, 2007. I wasnt even born, when this song got released, and i play it on my guitar now as though this is my song. Something young musicians today wont probably like! The song is called BLACK DOG. I would want some "Robert Plant" to sing it for me someday. I have been asking one of my friends to do that, but all he does best is listen. He doesnt even dare!


*update: the reunion concert video was no longer available, so please do enjoy the full song from the 1973 concert.

Led Zeppelin still goes strong! Look at how old they've grown and what a crowd they still rock for! Seemed they have low tuned the guitar to scale down the vocals.

Media just got busted with the news of people traveling thousand miles for the show, fans paying high amount for the donation that the concert aims to serve.

Led Zeppelin have played on rare occasions together since the death of their drummer, John Bohman. And now, it was good seeing his son, Jason playing the drums.

The songs played on the Reunion Concert can be viewed from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin#2007_Reunion

I hope to get the DVD of the concert, cos thats what i can do best! :P Or , May Be, they are set for a US tour. That would be awesome!

November!

No Motivation! No want-to-do!
No Obligation : but what to do?
No GRADES! :P

No Time! No Money!
No Girls around!
No Cheerfulness!
No drinks today : its a depressant! i dont want to be
NO MORE!

No Professor!
No Presentations!
No QUIZ!
No Studying!
No ME!!!
Since ME! YES for last 5 statements! OH NO!

No Media
No SouthPark
No Joox
No Movies
No Recreation
No November
Since November! YES for last 6 statements! OH YES!

No Trauma
No Blog
Not me .. November Ghost! :P

Savings!

I saved an hour today, until March 9, 2008 .

The clock started ticking 1:59:59 AM then, 1:00:00 AM (Daylight Saving). I am planning to make the most out of it until March next year.

Lets see.

Future Tense

My ears hear the most reduced audible sound enough to wake me up at 07 hours 14 minutes and 5.4 × 10^−44 seconds of the day. That precision over there is the "Planck Time". And is the smallest unit of time that could ever be measured. Thanks to MIT for bringing up devices which can measure such precision. I heard that they wrote some 1000 papers for that. And they are still trying hard to find lower precision units. Hmm , seems like you're never going to get off your addiction to try to make this world more complex than it already is.

My eye-lids open, the windows open and i get a cool sea breeze with some highly fragrant (BUT MILD) aroma of my girlfriend. The breeze is artificially generated by a product, which is triggered from the radio waves emitting device mounted on top of my eye lids which senses LID_OPEN and LID_CLOSED events.

My girlfriend stands right infront of me, and while i am seeing her for the next 5 minutes, the bed stands me up, unfolds itself, hides away and pushes me gently to the bathroom. [ what happens there, is beyond the scope of this blog. ]

As i am back, I wear a glass that has a display which shows me and my girlfriend on many different costumes with the most suitable weather at the background from the weather forecast. Oh did i tell you: all of these devices that i mentioned has IPV6 and can communicate with each other in a very efficient ad hoc protocol with an increased throughput of about 98% from what it was in 2007. The costume that i select comes up. I dress up and She dresses up.[ Mind You, I have never liked the idea of being dressed up cos i do it good than any technology would ].

The costume maintains itself a HASH TABLE for the type of car that i would drive on. The Bugatti comes right ahead of us, while we are led by the rolling floor to the front yard of my house. We hop in, and the car would take us to our destination, the highest restaurant in the highest building of the world at supersonic speed. We sit there, have breakfast.. She takes out her gadget , instructs her juniors : the way to improve the design of the interiors of the customers. I am always fascinated with her vivacity. Then, she opens up her notebook and scribbles down for the book she's been writing quite a long time now. She spends all her time at that restaurant working and i keep on seeing her do her stuffs. Lunch Time: we have lunch. She's still busy working and i am busy seeing her. Oh yes.. world's greatest masseurs are always there to get her stress-relief massages. For me, i like the way she does it to me while we go back home! LOL

You must be wondering : what i do for a living! Don't i have to work ? OH YES, I HAVE TO. I'd rather stop dreaming and get back to work now. Grrrrr.

Practically Impotent!

Looking back into yesteryears, i think : is/was studying always like this ? You feel practically "impotent". I dont want this blog to be yet another irksome rants of a sluggard. I have so many complaints to make but i wont.

Theres a well-known saying. "A single prof can ruin the time you'd otherwise ruin yourself. Then, why let him do the honor? " Hail to those who know this saying. Hell to those who dont.

I am just counting dayyysss , when this semester would be over and i could take a deep breath before i take yet another year for my thesis. [*sigh]

Again , having said that : STUDYING that i am referring to doesnt signify reading/studying in its entirety. Its just studying that freakin' pachyderm course.

Studying articles such as below gets me a different kind of smile!

Are you dependable, hard-working, reliable, goal-oriented? Bravo!
You're among MANY in this planet who is less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease.
or
Females more likely think negative events predict future events , so they have more anxiety!
These gender bashing studies gets the Male Chauvinism within me alive! :P

Bottomline : let the bore not be the core courses!

Jottit ?

Read here .. [how i got into this]
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/sweatsmall

Read here .. [syntax reference]
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

Play here .. [elftrauma jots]
http://elftrauma.jottit.com

Free Hug Day - September 10

If you didnt know, September 10 is to be called the "Free Hug Day" by some self-proclaimed geniuses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Hugs_Campaign

I've always been a fan of "Free" . Anything costless opens itself a new lure for me to acquire!!! Free food, Free gifts, freebie, Freedom, Freewill, Freelance, Free Press, Free-Spoken and finally Free Hugs !!! If you take it a level up, Free Hugs and Kisses .. Let me not talk about free love now , or i might be sounding a little pervert!

So, keep your shoulders up. If you're a girl , breasts tightened ( now you can call me having a perverted mind ). Get ready for a free hug and dont be surprised if hugged too hard, cos people like me might just be waiting for this very day to show the manhood! Ok, that is quite enough of an embarrassment. Talk about last comment BK made.. he himself gets laid! If i sense it correct, who doesnt ?

Anyway, for all those comments i get .. i track each of you from the "free" tracker i use at my website. Let me remind you: i am a geek! I may not know you all , but then i know my frequent visitors. Let me take this opportunity to thank you guys for commenting and taking your time to read, which i myself do least often. I rather read some other interesting blogs than the craps i jot down. I know there are plenty around, which i am a frequenter of. One of which is one of the guy who i just had beer with. : ) You know who!

Today, there was a Football match between the ranked#5 in division-2 (UNO) vs ranked#2 in division-2 (NorthWest Missouri State) .. and guess who won? You guessed it right ? The Mavs made a nice comeback after the second half .. partly because of those beautiful cheerleaders who made us shout like hell "Go Mavs Go" ! :) The game was awesome! The crowd was even more! The cheerleaders !!! damn , let me not go there! But honestly, at intervals : nothing was better than drooling at them !!! Not expectant of anything though! lol and did i tell : this was yet another "free" event with the Student ID card.

Enough of "free" blog-n-share game! I guess i'd have to start a pay-per-post-read blog! That seems the only chance for me to get into making some big bucks for some big plans ahead!

Not kidding! Not "too" drunk too! : )

i am drunk and i look good!

Friday Night , I am drunk! I look better!!!

Wonder Why?

I've got a smile on my face, cos i submitted my thesis proposal.
I've got yet another smile, cos i am back from a momo party and had quite of vodka.
When drunk , i usually have this appealing eyes and charming smile, you'd fall down upon me.
Overall , i do look good now!

You better give me my freedom of drinkin' while on a date, so that you can see the actual me : if you go by the looks. Otherwise, FUCK OFF . lolllllll Sorry.. i wont mind if you dont drink . I look good when drunk , cannot guarantee everybody does so. : )

so long baby .. you're mine!

So Long Baby! So Long!!!
why it took me so long to embrace you
why it took me so long to touch you
caress you..
hear you..
be with you..
why it took me so long
so long...
so long
so long . wow, a song!
so long baby, you're mine!!!









Welcome to ELF's fingers!
Play Good for him.
Be nice.
Dont let the overdrive zzzoom away the neighbors ;)
Let the humbuckers do the noise/echo cancellation
and put Elf's Palm at ease ..
let elf play " befikri " - without any care ..
on his own, to his own, for his own.

Dipsomaniac!

I love drinking!

I just love it. I have a unique sense of taste for every alcohol. Gin, Vodka, Rum, Wine, Beers, Whiskey and varieties of liquors, liqueurs and spirits. I have been drinking from the age i realized i needed intoxication to make my life worth living. I know i must have had a bad liver by this time. Its more of a weekend routine for me to booze. An excuse for alcohol to take upon me, and a complete take over. My Weekend Date! BOOZE : REIGN OVER ME! :)

Some of the wonderful memories i have when i was drunk!

1. I used to update my personal blog most of the times, and write nonsensical stuffs to brood/laugh over the other morning.

2. I remember, i didnt quite care about my shoes .. once .. was so drunk that i was on my bed with shoes on.

3. I tend to use my cell phone a lot when i am drunk. Just scan across my acquaintances, and call them. Girls - priority!

4. I always get annoyed of myself of not having PLENTY FEMALE ACQUAINTANCES to call while i am drunk.

5. Most of the time, i flirt. Most other times, i whine! Alcohol gives me strength to prove myself a bad ass ! : )

6. The more i get in, the more i regret the other day. I HATE HANGOVERS, but i love excessive drinking too.

7. I have pissed on the road drunk, even made circles and different piss-arts. [ College ]

8. I am a big fan of DAMIEN RICE's "Blowers Daughter" when i am drunk. I sing out loud. If i get a guitar, i play on it .. and once even my fingers bled!

9. I remember, on one of the college concerts.. whilst i was playing a song.. some of my friends came onto the stage, hold my head up and poured in "McDowell's No.1 Whiskey". I was so pissed off that i took my guitar off my shoulder and came out of the stage and started drinking with them. Either i feared, i would not respect the frets once i would get too drunk, or i wanted more of the whiskey!!! The Crowd were all drunk.

10. I cant think of anything better than drinking on a social event. Invested quite much on corrupting the functioning of my liver, i wish i had saved it all. I would have had fortunes by now.

Get me internet, a guitar, a bar, a wife and kids. I ask no more! :)

Chicago Road Trip Summer '07

Of all the monotony after the end of the Project, that was in my head : Last Weekend was the trip to "Eden", the third largest city in the US. This weekend we werent working, and i finished off with my last words at the meeting with delight, thinking about the trip ahead.

We had planned for a Colorado trip, and many said places in there are like Pokhara/KTM(Thamel). There was the heat going on, in what to do, where to stay! wild river rafting? train at the Royal Gorge or SkyCoaster? Drive from Estes Park to Springs or the other way round? These questions, and so lots of researchers around , we just dropped the idea. :) It was turning all mess with lots of ideas ONLY.

So, a completely unplanned, surprise road trip to Chicago headed our way! We had some prints of some maps, whilst thought , we could get it on the way, so packed a laptop with us on the journey as well. A 2007 model rented car and then we 4 started the journey. We had a plain idea to go to Minnesota (Eden Praire), Wisconsin (Milwaukee) and Illinois (Chicago). Got friends ready on phone for a place to crash into, after we arrive there! Excited to see the Mississippi and Lake Michigan , and of course, the Chicago Skyline (at day/night).



The Route taken touching almost 6 states.



So starts the Journey. From Omaha to Des Moines and headed North to Minnesota. Got pulled over by a cop for speeding and got the whole trip expense as a ticket to pay for! :) He was excited about speeding at 100miles/hour ! He said: "Damn, i am having a lifetime experience". I said: "Buddy, Hope not Uncle Sam comes from behind and you have yet another lifetime experience". eekkkss .. Elf Spoke, it happened! lol



The St. Croix River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, (Wisconsin-Minnesota Border). Stopped by to put in my Shades, bought from MOA(Mall of America, MN), and click on some scenic beauties!



Milwaukee , what can i say! We were gripped by the Lake Michigan Shore. We immediately dropped the way to go to Chicago through the highway and instead started taking the Lake Shore Drive. The Lake in the East window of the Car, the full moon and its reflection on the lake. The Lake itself, the size of the sea! Just imagine! LOL , i can sleep mouth wide open still commemorating those moments.



Got lost within the streets, and finally met friends. Had fun with them, and also a friend accompanied us! We are very grateful to him n his mama for the hospitality we had there. BTW, we first went to DEVON Street in Chicago! It was all Indian-Pakistan-Bangladeshi street lined up and man, i have no words to describe the pungent smell there was. People didnt follow the street lights, I could use my pedestrian right as anything! : ) . Samosas, Paani Puri, Paan .. had fun with those!



Chicago Skyline on a bright sunny day! Just was appreciating mankind and dreaming of having an office space somewhere on the topmost floor.



Then, the view would be this! :)



Or THIS! This is from the third tallest building in the world.(Sears Tower). The first and the second being in Taiwan(Taipei Financial Center) and Malaysia (The Petronas Tower) respectively.





The view of downtown chicago from the Water Taxi across the Chicago River, was simply spectacular.




The Evening on a cruise on the Lake Michigan, and Chicago skyline in the evening! Now i believe, some moments in life, neither can you capture on a camera, nor can you write/express on words! Its ecstasy! Its THE orgasm of a lifetime!



Let the Pictures speak, again!

Bad Luck - Credit to Gods!

“As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for”

The famous quote explains my derogatory blog piece. Never mind! As long as you are reading, and as long as i am here to prove for, i will try my best. I had a really shit deadening week ! One of my female friend(s) stopped talking to me blaming me to be a MCP. If you know what that means. I wondered, if that was any compliment i was getting :). Later came to realize, it was another attribute tagged to my smartness. Oh, was it my bad luck. God knows cos he's credited for it. I dont care! LOL

What else could i be with after that!

Tequila with some chicks? Oh yes, 100% natural nude chicks! Some wanted to roast it, some wanted to cook over the grill .. i wanted them cooked and HOT, anyway they can be. Thankfully, the 'buffalo wild wings blazing hot sauce' has been hitting our gustatory organ time n often, these days!

Oh, is it again GOD to be credited for my luck?

On the ROAD of life, even a fool can see where he's come from, and where he's heading to! Whats the big deal that i can! I ain't smart enough to have captured this lucky moment.


And most surprisingly n honestly, someone wrote this on my weekly research progress report.

*(in small)
- finalised plan for world domination
- building fortress in a forbidden zone.

That must be GOD AGAIN! :)

ecneirepxe gnizama na

.pot ot mottob ,sdrawkcab ti daeR :SP

.sknahT

.senotselim etaidemretni dna senildaed gnikcuf esoht fo efil ym ni gnivah ma i ynotonom eht lla morf dnim ym esicrexe naht od ot retteb gnihton tog i taht swohs sihT .siht gnidaer otni tog uoy egar eht lla rof yrroS

.syek worra eht no dnah thgir dna stebahpla eht no dnah tfel htiw hcus ekil gnitirw pu deeps ot reisae si ti taht deciton evah thgim uoy ,siht gnitatimi dna gnidaer era uoy elihW .suineg a era uoy ,siht gnitirw ma i woh tog uoy fi

Birthday Celebrations!

Thanks everyone for the wishes! I had plenty coming yesterday, mostly from facebook. And thanks, CLONE : ) for that wonderful surprise poem. I absolutely loved it, and enjoyed it.

Tell you about how i spent my birthday. Woke up in the morning, went to Work! : ) Had a meeting at 4:30 PM , and took off at 5:30 . [ Was practically working on SOAP XML requests and responses , the early hours of my birthday, whilst chatting and visiting facebook to see how many wishes i have been getting. ]

The show began after 6:30 , when we drove into Liquid Lounge. Had some beer pitchers! There were some girls around, but none was looking at the birthday boy! Why would they? They had their HUGE males around!

We took off from there to Fox n Hound English Pub. That was interesting enough! Had Pool tables, Table-Tennis, bar, food, even complimentary drinks.[a new beer was launched recently, sorry : dont even remember the name ] :P There were some girls, who FINALLY came to play mixed doubles. I still dont get it, they played ping-pong like Tennis! And was always like : "excuse us, we're drunk". Later, they left saying " we work here only, drop in anytime " . Played lots of pool and table-tennis, had some tequila shots and finally drove back safe n sound, without DUI. [ dont know, if 'i hear voices' was actually under influence :P ]

Looking forward to more hang-outs from this age onwards : ) I seriously, am getting OLD [ justified to be called oldmaven ], and i should seriously consider remaining NOT SINGLE! : ) God Bless ME!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!

happy birthday to you,
happy birthday to you,
happy birthday dear ELFIE!
happy birthday to you :)

May this birthday be....

as rocking as the "roger water concert"
as colourful as the "colours of life"
as funfilled as "the road fiesta "
as lyrical as "the songs playing in my mind"
as aromatically delicious as "Cookelf" :P
as sanely insane as "what if god was me!" :P :P :P :P

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." CHEERS !!!

With love.....................from ya BLOG !

Roger Waters, Omaha, June 29

* Poor Quality Pictures from a Mobile Camera. Please excuse.

Dark Side of the Moon!

http://elftrauma.blogspot.com/2007/04/erebus.html
The story continues from this blog.

Erebus pops out from the "dark side of the moon" to the "bright side of the earth" just to know that it isn't as brighter as it seems. The brightest i.e. the SUN is too far his reach anyways, and he dareth not explore or he would be incinerated to ashes. Erebus shouts "No, I am not afraid of dying! Any Time will do, I don't mind! Why should i be afraid of dying? Everyone gotta go sometime ".

Erebus walks around the heavenly-earth .. just to hear noises.. people shouting, cars/trucks/vans .. the sounds of jets.. and then he listens to a man saying " Live for Today : Gone Tomorrow, Thats me " So this is what they call people. ALWAYS ON RUN ?

He slowly realizes the run people are in .. the rush for something .. waiting for someone/something to show the way .. is all what TIME is and how people are all moving along with it. You want to see what it is there next ... thinking that life is long , but then, you dont know how ten years passed by once you are there, and you wish you were 10 years back to start something new ? or may not be ! Erebus sits in awed silence beneath the sun!

Slowly, Erebus realises that it is all MONEY people work their arse off for. Get a good job, Get a good car and you're OKAY! Wanting more, its all the root of evil today! Erebus laughs at himself. He doesnt have a penny and all he has to do next is find a job to exist! He can see cash registers and once thinks he can earn by snatchin' those and later realizes it is what they call "crime". He is the God of Darkness himself.

Erebus shouts : " where can i find an ordinary man ? "

----- to be continued ----- [ after June 29 ]

Tech, Tech and More Tech

It has been a different world for me recently.

Crossbow Motes - seems like a "long forgiven" / "long forgone" lover. The network layer greedy-forwarding implementation and the underlying link layer implementation and those codes in NesC .. I have kept it aside my mind for like 3 weeks now, and branched out on a different horizon. YES, i am hired to build a Widget.

Some interesting insights that i gained during past few weeks.

1. An intern is so less expected than a researcher. [ could be the opposite when they burden me up ;) ]

2. Technology is far exciting than you think it is , and yes, it is all OVER HYPED. Have you used XAML ? ok , good at least You Know. Now , try these: XUL , BPEL, ZUL , UIML, OOXML, GladeXML, WPF, IronPython, F#, Boo, Blah , ELFTRAUMA (only to name a few)

3. Every technology, whether it be the most primitive one, or the most advanced one, is the look-out for the next year. This insight just cracked me up! While on research, i was a frequenter of wsnblog. Now, its more of the Yahoo! widgets, Dashboard widgets and GWT toolkits, Microsoft Gadgets documentations, forums and all. These websites, blogs and many more say : widgets are the look for next generation of Off/On-Browser Desktop/Mobile Applications. I am now pretty sure - wherever you step-in on technology, you'd find being involved in the most "demanding-promising-alluring-beguiling" look-out of a decade ahead.

4. One thing for sure, inferred from the third insight. NO TECHNOLOGY REMAINS FOREVER. GET UPDATED OR KEEP SCRATCHING YOUR B*LLS. :)

5. Always let your Project Manager know your "lunch hours". :P Unlucky that i am, i missed a clients meeting yesterday by some minutes.

6. An Intern gets so much time that if he wants to keep writing his blog, he can - for the whole day.

• Else than that, he broods over Iran's plan to execute porn stars and people involved in adult movies considering them "corruptors of the world".
• He smiles at Steve Jobs for being so overly confident to call a "BETA" software secure from the first day itself [contradiction in itself].
  
• He tries installing Safari for windows and crashes it using one of the "code-snippet" provided by a hacker.

And dont know how he's gonna spend rest of his hours ... but good thing is he's getting paid! : ) at least! ;)

ThunderStorm!

NOTE:
Strictly in Jest. But then as brat as ELF is, to add up a little spice to this blog, why not. Sometimes, you felt this day was to come long before you even started. If you got what i mean! :P A big SORRY if anyone is troubled/offended. BUT then, the concept and the crew in crime think it is justifiable to make the blog set alive, with something quirky and something that catches attention. I like it, dont you ?

Life is full of options; yet you cannot choose!

OK.

Tell you what!

• I got a summer internship position at a Service Provider located 300 miles away from my place. Rent-Free and all that, but pay exactly what my professor pays.
• Had yet another interview and an offer on a local technology center on a project, with a 33.33% more pay.
• My professor says : " Good JOB , ELF" few days ago and he pays exactly what i would earn from the summer intern on that remote job (1st option).

I can work option 2 and 3 (time sharing) to make the most money, but i cannot time-share with the first option. I think, none of these jobs are that boring and every of it will affect my career equal.

First option would be an adventure in a town of 10,000 people. That is, practically, ALONE!

Second Job would be all money-money-money but i have decided on timesharing with the third since i got to find my thesis topic within this summer for me to take in the "thesis option" for my graduate degree. There always is the "project and the course option". I need not panic though.

A girl at our university strips for her honors thesis? COOL :P
Read this : http://www.ketv.com/news/13360758/detail.html
Man, am i getting some ideas ? ;)

The Third Option... i think i was simply looking for a break off the same old shit, since I'd have to continue on that after the summer again.

I guess i will go in for (2-3 timeshare) , but then, i haven't yet rejected the internship offer for the first job. I guess its bye-bye to the first one.

Confession: I actually, was trying to write a rejection letter : but instead ended up here.

Oh GOD! Why is choosing a job as difficult as choosing a girlfriend ? or, am i asking too much?

Screw you professor, you make my life boring!

I never tried too hard. He wants me to. I always succeeded without trying too hard and now is just the opposite. He never stops the deadlines and the TODOs. I am buried in a heap of workload. He doesn't understand me ,or the other way round!

Oh God, send me yet another professor who knows what he is doing, and what he is letting his student do. OR, if you cant do that, make his wife a little less dominant at his home, can you?

It has been almost a week or more and when everyone seems to be enjoying the summer ( are they ? ), i seem to be dragging. Not that it isn't what i ask for, but i wanted the same to be easy-peasy. I guess, unpredictability is so ubiquitous that you cannot escape being a victim. Doesn't it sound better if you could fight it ? OH YES!

BUT HOW DO I GET RID OF MY STRAIN THAT HE IMPOSED ?

• Work more/harder, Party the most/hardest ( not quite on money though ).
  
  
• Your time is precious and your paunch is gettin' bigger. (Go squaring up the elm wood park).
  
  Side note: You don't want to gain weight, do you ? Remember, Adnan Sami ? or Your "Mama"(uncle) ? Do you want to be like one of them. Even last time you talked with your "Mama"(uncle), he said, he reduced so much of his bulge. And he was warning you!
  
  
• Sleep Well. (Ah! You'd be turning anti-social buddy! )
  
  
• Make sure, even if the professor screws you (literally) , you don't make your life boring. Work for him, Live for yourself.
  

ELF AND ME

Been with him thru his ups and downs,
Seen his happiness and his frowns,
Seen his whining galore….
Heard his geek talks…Oh so bore!

Tasted the failures,
Smelled the success,
Rested with him…
In life’s recess.

Have shared his little fears,
Have shared many smiles,
Have seen him drunk too….
Once in a while :P

Seen him strive!
Seen him slog…
I know it all coz
I’m his dear ELF TRAUMA BLOG ! :P :P

"Gooo gal"

DISCLAIMER: It isn't my find! BUT this is interesting!

Google has always been a talk-about everywhere. The way it amuses people bringing out brilliant ideas and services.

Let me start with an old trick!

• Go to http://maps.google.com
  
• type in "omaha to london" to get in directions
• and scroll on the left pane, no. 28 !
  

Is that what you'd expect ? Geeks! Googlers!

Alright, Have you been hearing of rumors about the "soft wear" industry giant , 'my crow soft' thinking of acquiring 'YAHOOOOOO' to battle against 'gooooo gal' ? gooooo gal seems to be fantastic in innovation, i doubt even if the crow does so, HE wouldnt succeed! [Totally my cents. You dont need to agree on this.]

Goooo gal ! I am trying to act a feminist here! EQUAL RIGHTS. Now, you'd be surprised, Gooo Gal doesnt accord to my belief. Dont believe me ? OK, go for yet another trick!

• Go to http://www.google.com
• Search "he invented" --- remember with quotes!
  
• OK, you get a bunch of search results, FINE! PERFECT!
  
• Go back!
  
• Search "she invented" --- remember with quotes again.
• Can you note the difference?
  

Now tell me, do i make justice here writing "Google" as "Goooo gal" ?

For those who are fascinated with how google presents itself ( herself? ) to the public , try visiting this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_hoaxes

And for geeks, who would like to NOT work at Google, please do visit this link and be cautioned:
http://forum.guffgaff.com/index.php?topic=158

For everyone else, i think its time you close this page! Too much of geeky stuffs! : ) Better luck next time!

where do u prefer ?

hey there....

hey "ELFTRAUMA-clone [ the blog itself ]".

Welcome to my BLOG WORLD! BLOG UNIVERSE! whatever you wish it to be called, but a part of me.

A theoretical role of ELF/EREBUS/PALINDROME in this BLOG is to excite this feeling within you. A feeling of life! and mind you, you remember yourself(the GOD within yourself) the most either when you are drunk, or when you are in trouble. Me frequenting less means my life has been normal nevertheless. And i am not a pessimist ever! :) It so happens, that what you are NOT, you happen to portray it even better. Believe me, it is true! : )

And many many thanks for your kind words scribed on such a beautiful poem. I have bestowed(is it the correct word?)YOU with full privilege. You can delete[but i hope not] my posts if they seem to be in contrary to what i am! BUT THEN, thats all i have you see. LOL , if i had my wife who would be troubled on some 3/4 moons i'd be having time and often... i guess i wouldnt have been writing it all on literature :) i hope you agree with me on that!

Whatever it is, you get to know me more and i get to know ppl from comments. Thats the whole idea about this blog. MAKE FUSS and BE HAPPY! isnt it ? I am happy at least i make a fuss out of my mind and it comes out as a scribble. It feels good though!

Anyway, there is no point in me writing this blog entry except welcomin' you to my small world, my BLOGDOM!

Do enjoy your stay here! :_)

.......so says my blog !

Hey there Mr. Elf / Erebus ! whoever you are ...I HAVE A COMPLAINT TO MAKE .


Why you remember me only when u got to whine ?
why im updated in a frustrated frame of mind?
am i your blog or a punching bag?
am i the blog of a youth or an old hag?

Why most of the posts dont make a sense to me?
why i have to rack my brains,when all i want is to glee ?
why your poem says...FCUK YOU, insanity,Ifeel the death,and killing oneself ?
Oh i need some humour here My dear ELF!

I'm burdened down by your "delusions" and "detachments"
please make me light and listen to my 2 cents .
I need more of "colors of life " and your "lily"
Some more of "Road fiesta" and talks silly :)

freakin' reality!

Why is *reality, or so called always so daunting ? I question myself and many others! Well , there are people who cant face reality, and there are ones, who pretend to. There are every one who face reality on their own terms, and in general, this applies to all of us!

Now what u call reality is a fiction on my terms. So what you call facin' is a pretense to me! What you think is a mere thought and what you act is a lie!

A little background into what i have been doing all this week: "SEGMENTATION FAULT" : thats all what i have been debugging! GOD DAMMIT! I was writing an interpreter in C , and all and often i get this message on my SCREEN. More frustrating was when the code that i developed in my CYGWIN machine just didnt work in the CENTOS platform the professor wanted to put our code into. Later on, after lots of cigarettes , found out that the problem was with appending '\0' to the end of the string! Why on Earth do they NOT make a common error type on every god damn systems! Nevertheless, talked with my professor about it ,corrected it and submitted it (though incomplete). I hope to get a passing grade for this course! thats all! and seriously, i have revitalized and gained a lot from that project. You never know, i might come up with a new programming language with a set of grammar : supporting NEPALI UNICODE! Time and Deadlines and other tons of work has always been a problem for me, and once i even thought, i should remove "ability to work under pressure" from my resume! :P I hope i dont remove it : as i have plenty workplaces to apply further! : )

Got 3 presentations scheduled, a research paper to be completed by next weekend! Oh what a life to take! BUT, hope it counts on the LONG RUN ! i hate this phrase " on the long run" . It just seems, you are running in LONG and *longing for only! :P FRUSTRATIONS , thats what i call it!

Anyways, DOESNT it feel good when you have encouragement from your loved ones? OH YES, it does! DAD says : Do good and God will help you! I say : you support me , i will do good! GOD: He's just my belief! You are my better belief!

Having said that, i cannot ignore the fact that i am completely drunk now , with a blend of vodka with the tonic water that HY-VEE INC provides me with! I aint seeking an excuse for this blog, cos you aint my wife, are you ? I hope, by the time, my wife gets to know me OR i have my wife alongside with me, i wont be frantically blogging like this on every rants i have to make. RATHER be discussing it with her, and which i believe, she would LOVE pacifying my frustrations with her LOVE! :P cant wait for that day actually. BUT again , reality .. is reality.. and my wife alongside with me , is just a fiction to me NOW! :)

OK . enough of this rants, *without a backspace* now! Till i have a good morning, snoring ( sorry i dont, but i think thats the way you sleep like a ____ , dont know what ) ... the night out, you have a great day or night , wherever you are .. and whatever time you are reading this blog on!

GOOD DAY YA ALL! TAKE CARE

Erebus

Amidst a shadow, an object crosses the thin line of boundary between reality and fiction. The literary figure evolves out of the dark and it doesn't know what it is to be called. "EREBUS" , He chuckles! Thats what he calls himself. A mystery: the world is to him, a myth to the world: he is! They just don't go together! He tries finding his way back from the literature he germinated. Little does he know, the thought(n) thought(v) couldn't be modified. He better learn to live with light. He better turn optimistic. The world just seemed too much a heaven for him. He just loved darkness. Would he adapt? Would he rather live on with the norms people set in? He would rather be normal, much normal than you had expected (even more?).

He was clad in black armor when he "evolved", if that is the word that describes how he was born. He hated his outfit so immediately got a nice tee. Erebus looked a gentleman now.

[ The author thinks he will continue the story later , as he is just feeling sleepy now of having finished his *not-so-easy assignment that is due tomorrow , after having worked almost a week! (4 days to be precise) ]

In the song Serenade to Music (written by shakespeare, song composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams) refers to Erebus, saying:

"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted."

woooo hooo!

I got a ticket to go to HAWAII! I cant believe my dreams would come true so unexpectedly. Well, well , the sad part is that its a ticket for a couple. and i am still single! An Spectacular Summer on the most exotic place in this planet, heads me right away!

The website from where i earned this VACATION package is : http://www.state.nj.us/lottery/instant/ig323.htm

I couldnt believe a lottery or rather LUCK , would make my dreams come true. HMMM , thats what we all wait for , dont we ?

"Hawaii Vacation Packages will include round trip coach airfare for two persons from Newark, NJ or Philadelphia, PA to Maui, Hawaii, 6 nights for two persons at the Westin Maui, 7 day Alamo or Dollar car rental, $500 spending money and hotel and airfare taxes. Prize is transferable one time. Blackout dates apply for peak holiday and airline blackout periods. Cash cannot be substituted in lieu of prize. Hawaii Vacation Package winners must be at least 21 years old and must execute a release of liability as a condition of receipt. Travel must be completed by December 31, 2007.

Traveler is responsible for all applicable state and federal taxes, gratuities, meals (unless specified) and items of a personal nature. Traveler is responsible for a resort fee of $8 per person which is payable directly to the hotel."

WELL WELL , with all the excitements for me , you just wait for the pictures!

in honor!

This BLOG POST is in honor to one of my BLOG frequenters, who has contributed to me writing on "elftrauma" in many different ways! ---------> and who is at ELF SPOTLIGHT now! : )

You ROCK girl, and You are CUTE! : )

ELF

Oh me

I guess, i needn't write any more about the last trip i made. The pictures spoke it all, didn't it ?

[chorus]No , it did not!

It did not talk about the GHOSTTOWN where we stopped by for GAS, and freaking escaped from the place as soon as possible. It did not talk about the Italian restaurant "CASA BLANCA" where i would never stop by, in this life time and many more. It did not talk about the fear of rattlesnakes on the Badlands National Park. It did not talk about the (*not so appealing to us) CORN PALACE at Mitchell, SD on our way on the I-90. Other than that, the picture says it all ! :_)

A drift now !

Do you know why i like BUTTS? Well , its such a mystery! :P I am NOT that, by any chances! :) Spare me, come on! what were you thinking ? :) OK, how about BUTT SKETCH? I guess, you'd start to think about it! See for yourself the pic below that was posted on the noticeboard few days before.





Now dont call me lazy NOT to write about the trip. I, at least, updated the blog! ;)

The ROAD fiesta!

Started off at Friday afternoon, the journey began with some backpacks and a whole lotta excitement for the ROAD TRIP ahead to Mt. Rushmore.

Oh GOD! I am not in a mood to write an essay now! : ) It has been continuous 7 days of boozing and today is no miss! The Spring Break started with a BLAST and tomorrow is again NO MISS! A birthday party awaiting, that is! I have a document(SRS) to be done by the day after. THEN , the time is all mine. Seems, like i'll have a record of 10 days or more of boozing now! Since i am not in the mood of writing all about trip now [ which of course, you'd have to wait for the next blog ] , i will let the pictures speak! :P













:) :) [ It has been few hours i arrived back , and i am drunk already :P ]

Am i in for a change ?

For the last couple of months, i have seen changes within me! Some extra-ordinary changes that is making me a MORE sensitive and a reserved individual. I weren't the way i am now: ever before. I get carried away even on small tiny things , that would just be a JOKE to somebody else.

For instance, you tell me: HEY, ELF YOU GOT (A-) on your grades, GO FUCK YOUR PROFESSOR! I would go: "WHAT ? what on earth do you think i am ? A GAY or STH ?"

For instance, you tell me: "HEY, look at that girl! She's on some nice tops and a short skirt. She is looking at you and hey , thats the sign . Go for it "

I would go: " Listen. SEX to me happens once , and its my choice when and with whom i make it! SEX to me , is making love with the one i like and the one who i value for/ respect . The idea of having fun sucks! The idea just doesnt amass within my brains, THEY tend to explode! I can never perform POLYGAMY in my life ever! Neither can i fake myself and my morales. I can never deceive and i can never sustain deception. So , that means , I CANT "

And a minute later , i ponder on my words!

Am i too judgmental on this attitude? Can't i NO MORE take in humor? What exactly has happened to me? Why do i act what i am NOT , or rather what i am in REAL! Who am i even proving to , writing all this in a BLOG. This BLOG has always been my personal ramble! Perhaps , this is what i got to talk to , when i get pissed off , happy, unhappy!

I repeat: I am what i am and I know NO JOKES!

YES, i am SENSITIVE , YES, i am RESERVED. And Believe me, IT ROCKS!

I wish i could just smile at my post above! FUCK!

Stranger Than Fiction!

This is Stranger than fiction! Not that i am , but i am written like that!
Who writes me ? Thats anonymous . My name is ELF. My emotions sweep high and low , i fall in/out of love. My heart gets bashed now and then. I am hated now and then. I am a puppet. I get this feeling of hatred towards humanity in general. I know i am going to die soon. How, When, and Where, only the author knows! Certainty of Death!

I am a character created by this anonymous guy and He is going to kill me , so i have to ask HIM to stop!

[ Little does ELF know ............ ]

Colors of Life

Precious Moments
Moments of a lifetime!
Joyous
Exultant
Desires
WOW! Simply WOW!

The silent woods
The observant SUN
Those insane thoughts
and so so SANE me!
Colors of Life!

Dreams and Aspirations
Aspirations and Dreams
Dreamer, Oh Aspirer
Aspirer, Oh Dreamer
LOL ME!!!

The stay together
The "telepathy" !!!
The geography
Chemistry
Physics - what NOT!
DAMN! :p

Happy - for you!
Sad - NO NO
HAPPY - YES , for you!
SAD - NEVER!!!
Happy - Should be
Sad - Should be NOT

Wishes, Roses, Kisses
Feels like making love ;_)
Love : O Love
Oh Yes, LOVE
LOVE ?
unconditional!
ELFTRAUMA ! :P:P

The Silent Wood
The Silent Me
The Silent You
The Resilient Me :)
Colors of Life!

Desires - netted birds!
Simple - the BEST!
Moments cherished - Forever!
I say Hi
You say Hi
Long time no see ppl!
Hope ya'll enjoying the colors of life!
Best wishes.

***** grow snow!

Trees Grow Snow



Lamp Posts grow ON snow! :)



Cars grow snow! :)



Rivers grow snow! :)



and Finally ROADS grow snow! :)

ELF DNA

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damn! the midterm!

What more should i say! It really feels pathetic when you are buried with stuffs to do! And then is the time, you see : OH , i got a blog to update! and so the endless lists begin.

A little bit of "stupidity" added to intelligence! Guess what that gives :-

" A NEW BLOG ENTRY! "

A little more "stupidity" on it gives :

"A NEW BLANK BLOG ENTRY!

ENJOY READING WHILE I GO FINISH OFF MY REMAINING SLIDES! :)

COOKELF :_)

utterly bored?

Here is an instance of what i do and get all my smile back when i get utterly bored! In fact, after this, i laugh, i roll and can't help sharing as here at this BLOG! :-) Got the vibes already, eh?

OK. FOLLOW ME!

- Go to http://www.yahoo.com
- There is this "In the News" Tab, and below there you can see the link "MORE NEWS" [ HINT: You can directly click http://news.yahoo.com , if you are struggling to find the tiny font! :)
- OH WHAT THE HELL. IS ELF MAKING A FOOL OUTTA ME? nah , nah , how dare ELF! :P
- There is something called the "ODD NEWS". SPOT THAT and have your time!

RIGHT NOW , i can read these oddly ODD NEWS over there! :)

1) A routine appendix operation in Belgrade went badly wrong when two surgeons started fighting and stormed from the operating theater to settle their dispute outside.

Poor patient! :) I guess nobody comes to those surgeons again.

2) Fed up with spending too many weekends going to weddings, an Argentine couple took out a paid announcement on the social pages of a major newspaper expressing their desire for some social neglect : PLEASE DONT INVITE US TO YOUR WEDDING!

I, foresee, an unsocial networking website soon! :_) for socially neglected ones, or those who want to be socially neglected! Guess what: They wouldn't add as friends! They register and voila they are the members! PERIOD! LOL ! :)

3) A Malaysian state plans to recruit "spies" from the public to snoop on unmarried lovers and report them to Islamic religious authorities, a newspaper said Tuesday.

Oh my, Oh my! I am twice happy! I am a married lover :P , and I am not into ISLAMIC affinity! :)

4) A top South Korean bank is sending a group of its single female employees on a blind date trip to North Korea, hoping that romance will make them happy at the office, an official said Tuesday.

DAMN! I should have been a North Korean HULK :P :)

5) Perhaps his $24 billion electric bill will teach Richard Redden not to leave the heat running. Thanks to a printing error, Redden and more than 1,300 Weatherford utility customers this week received billion-dollar electric bills marked as late notices.

What a day he might be having! :) Hey WIFEY! LOOK. I got a billion-dollar bill on electricity! I guess the minute later he's stabbed from the back! and there stands his lovey dovey wifey! :)

I guess and i am sure there are endless ODD NEWS out there! And remember!

DONT EVER BE BORED! :)

Good Luck People!

Universe of Discourse!

Amazing , aint it ?

The way you analyze something written, spoken or a gesture: lets say! Can you go beyond the author? What do *DISCOURSE ANALYSTS* do, and what are they paid for? Do they necessarily get it all?

Well, thats an appealing topic for sure! I am NO analyst, but a mere admirer. I am an admirer of words, syntaxes, semantics, languages, grammars.. COME ON , we have aplenty of them. They make genres of discourse. They make it HEAP! Thats the best part why i CRAVE for literature! Me writing this, You reading this: and YOU thinking, what i was thinking while i wrote this! *MATCHES* [ please smile, i just tickled your brain ].

REF: Wikipedia

The term "universe of discourse" generally refers to the entire set of terms used in a specific discourse, i.e. the family of linguistic or semantic terms that are specific to any one area of interest. In model-theoretical semantics, the term "universe of discourse" refers to the set of entities that a model is based on.

What is the thin line between how people analyze what you are saying, and what EXACTLY you mean to say? Even sometimes later, you might also believe you meant what people analyzed! Funny? Yes, it is! Mythical? Yes, it is! Awesome! Its only Words! Pragmatics! Freakin' Awesome: i would say! :)

REF: Wikipedia

Topics of interest to discourse analysts include:

* The various levels or dimensions of discourse, such as sounds (intonation, etc.), gestures, syntax, the lexicon, style, rhetoric, meanings, speech acts, moves, strategies, turns and other aspects of interaction
* Genres of discourse (various types of discourse in politics, the media, education, science, business, etc.)
* The relations between discourse and the emergence of sentence syntax
* The relations between text (discourse) and context
* The relations between discourse and power
* The relations between discourse and interaction
* The relations between discourse and cognition and memory

Happy Valentine!

Yes. This is early! Its still 1 hr 35 minutes to February 14,2007. BUT, why am i early? Just to let the DAY know that i am in LOVE ever. I dont have to wait for this particular day to express my LOVE. NO NO, this is NOT an insult to the day either! Go , enjoy the day if you have waited so long for the expression of LOVE, for the expression of admiration that you have had ever on THIS DAY!

I have loved my BLOG , my rants/ramblings whatever you may say , since the day i started IMAGINING. The day i imagined a girlfriend - and it was all a mystery! Schoolmates called i was writing about a girl i die for! I was writing about a charismatic beauty [unseen, untouched, unexplored] : yet the name : LILY. For those who know what i am talking about, i can express how my passion for LOVE was since then. And you'd find it amazing that perhaps since i was so deliberately in LOVE with that unseen charm : i never had a relationship that really worked! :) In fact, that should be my fidelity towards HER. I can ONLY love and die for a single CHARM in my entire life. She is yet to be explored, remember!

Valentine's Day - the day when people are on RED. When people celebrate with their loved and dear ones. Let me celebrate it with my BLOG. I always wrote about HER, wrote my MIND, never knowing who she is/was. I dont care even i really need to see HER or meet HER , but I cant stop loving HER. :) I LOVE HER. Fragrant! Liliac! Mystery! my thought-image!

Hey. Listen! I have re-decorated my BLOG for you! LOL . The other fact is that, i have been busy studying for my assessment tomorrow. and this is not an excuse for blogging early ;) . You are always with me, and no doubt, tomorrow is no miss!

By the way, let me express my VALENTINE WISHES to everyone who reads me here! There is never a single time to let someone know how much you love or have loved her/him. But, some surprises can be overwhelming, of course! May it be V'Day or your loved ones B'Day! or why not make a new DAY special! mark it "YOUR DAY"!!! Recur it many a times in a year, lets say weekly , monthly, according to your convenience. Its all about expression and bringing an smile to YOURSELF, to your LOVED ONE!

I Love You! Thanks for being myself! LOL !!!

Valentine's Day Massacre!

You would go: what on earth does that "TITLE" means?

This world is surely an AMUSING place to live in. aint it ? Dont believe me ? Look at what SHE has to say!

Check this out!

WHAT ON EARTH :)

Beijing-to-Lhasa : an engineering marvel!

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I would love to.