bored at work! turns out to be a funday!!! :)

[note]* A pic has been removed ! That was so funny ! available upon special request only :P , most of you guys have seen that though!!! :)

shakespearean style ma!

love o' love!
where art thou?
can thee come again today
can thee tell me where you stay
can u tell me if i am thine ?
love thou shalt never fadeth
Be thou my sense , O' love of my hearth!!!
For thy with meh, i amy completeth!

[ ;) HELLO .. excuse me !!! , Shakespeare would kill me if he was alive - for i did pretty DJin' in there :P ]

NOW : how would ELF do that ? hmmm . let me put it as something for my ppl to guess upon ? if you hadth time :)

milestone!

milestone (n)

• stone post at side of a road to show distances
• a significant event in your life (or in a project)

Whats a milestone ? People set it up as goals , achieve it , then ? Create another milestone ? Whats the upper limit ? and besides for GOD's sake , for whom ?

Questions as such are never simple to answer , but , not impossible either. Everyone sets up goals to achieve.. .. say .. career, love, assets, living, eventually satisfaction . And it is equally likely, we create yet another milestone after having reached one. Now , have we ever known to realize the fact that the time you reach a milestone , you might feel something is not right. You might grow up maturity in your thoughts , and start pruning the milestone you achieved . This might sound weird , but , i am talking in context to the great great INTERNET MILESTONE , that occurred today. There was a website in AUG 1991 , and now there are 100 millions of it. Now , thats the great Internet milestone . In a first thought , its a great achievement .. we have plenty information floating "literally" around the world and in the access of people around. [ dont argue about digital divide here , since thats yet another challenge :) ]. Give it a second thought and analyse ' dont we have a little "excess" of information (repetition too) ? ' . Can we prune that ? Can we make sense on our contents in the internet ? Can we integrate services ? am i acting a bit nerd in asking for a total change ?

Yet another milestone for NEPAL with its technology. i was with a writeup with a little bit of reading concerning how NEPAL may be routed to the CENTRIC internet without relying on VSAT alone as it does now. Check that in the discussion forum : http://forum.guffgaff.com/index.php?topic=24.0
And the implementation for that milestone is still in the TODO list .

One other thing that strikes my mind is the packet switched network that was the milestone then (from circuit switched), and now, a pain due to different overloads it possess on different headers at different layers. [ today's lecture on networks covered a bit on this ;) ] I am certainly not boring you non-technical readers .. think of any other examples ..

lets say : my life . i set up a milestone , i move for it . i achieve it .. and what ? i setup another milestone .. and i move forward looking for it . damn! life is all about milestones , and you look back in retrospect , see things the way they are , amend things if you feel like , prepare for the next milestone .

And the key point is : "the adventure lies within" !!!

what if GOD was me!

Well , i got this idea "what if GOD was me!" and a song hit my mind . JOAN OSBORNE's "what if god was one of us". Some answers i have for her , if i were GOD.

If God had a name, what would it be
ELF
And would you call it to his face
Yes of course , i aint that horrible.

If you were faced with him in all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question
Will you marry me ? lol :)

And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
of course i am :)

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
I am GOD , and damn girl , i am a slob .. how did u know ??

If God had a face what would it look like
exactly like me , who else :P :P

And would you want to see
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like heaven and in jesus and the saints and all the prophets
i dont believe in heaven and things like that . and seeing me doesnt mean you'd have to believe in those . Just believe in me , thats it !


What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home

And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in rome


you caught me there honey!!! shall i ask you a single question ?

what if i was not GOD , but you a reality ?

dreams !!!

dreams
dreams
dreams ..

should i have to wait for dreams always to see you ?

I used to play this song plenty times when i was in the 8th grade. After, like 10 years now , i am getting used to listening it plenty times again. GOD HELP ME , i am a dreamer now ! :) :) ;)

the fall break!

I had a visit to an American farm, experience a cultural hayrack ride and barn dance. The venue was Stackhouse farm, Papillion, South Omaha. It was fun!!!

I managed to take a pic with a person(guy) similar to me ---> thats the "ELF mate" ;)

After the ride and the traditional square dance [ omg! i learnt lots of steps in there ] , we had this bonfire over there , where we "roasted" the marshmallows , sandwiched with the chocolate between crackers and had this amazing S'mores.

With so much fun , yesterday for a birthday and today for an evening out for some farm events , i realise i have examinations coming as the break is over ;)

The Financial Aid News!!!

During the university selection procedure for me, i registered for many financial aid websites and learnt a lot from them, though none of them provided me any aid ;). I got the aid on my own terms from my own department. However, an early search for financial aid for paying for tuition is extremely necessary. As i was checking along the October 2006 issue of the Financial Aid newsletter that i had subscribed long time back, there was this very interesting article talking about 5 ways to make some "spending money" while in college. Its more like a "beer money" as the article describes it ;) ..

Having a little extra spending money in college is always a welcome thing - a little extra cash for Saturday night, a nice lunch out every now and then, or even to make rent. Spending money can be relatively easy to come by if you know where to look. Here's 5 places online you can look for some "beer money"; for some, you won't even have to leave your desk! All of the programs listed here are free to join; no money ever leaves your pocket.

1. Got a blog? PayPerPost.com is looking for bloggers of all kinds to write short posts about all sorts of subjects. Posts can pay anywhere from $2.50 to $45 per blog post and you don't have to write much more than a couple of paragraphs. If your blog qualifies (at least 90 days old, at least one post a day, all public), you can apply for the program. I can say from personal experience, having earned $12 last month, that the program actually DOES pay you, which is nice.

Visit: http://www.PayPerPost.com

2. Know anyone who's graduated recently? The Student Loan Network's StudentATM program offers $100 per completed, returned student loan consolidation application. Get a few folks to consolidate their federal student loans, and get paid when they return their completed applications to the Student Loan Network. Our top participant has earned $17,000 since signing up in April 2006. (Our last check to them was for $7,600 - not bad for a month's work!)

Visit: http://www.StudentATM.com

3. Love music? Set up an iTunes affiliate account on your personal web site and ask your friends to purchase their music legally through your site. They'll pay the same amount, but you'll receive 5% of their purchases.

Visit: http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/

4. Got a blog, web site, podcast, or other online presence with a specific industry focus? Commission Junction offers a huge number of products and services in nearly every industry. Find stuff you'd recommend anyway and promote it with special links on your site. You can earn anywhere from mere pennies to hundreds of dollars, depending on which programs you participate in.

Visit: http://www.cj.com

5. This one doesn't involve money, but it does involve free pizza. Google is looking for students to participate in their Google Ambassador program. In exchange for promoting Google to engineering, computer science, and technology students, Google will allow you to call in a study break pizza pretty much whenever you want. You'll also get Google schwag to wear on campus.

Visit: http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=students.html&sid=ambassador

I am just another lazy-bone for the Google ambassador thing. I got this blog , but i am not updated on a regular basis. If i measure my blogging time, it follows the random distribution. HMM , perhaps the Pareto distribution. loll .. Might that give a closer approximation to my blogging probability??? Researchers wanted !!! and i am not paying you a dollar !!! :) :)

Body Language!

Some few weeks back, i met this new friend . She is an aged ( we call it "budi" ) who talks almost anything to me. In fact , she must have got that security talking to me, and i have learnt a lot from her. The major reason that her being a member of the opposite sex. Now , whats that anything ? no wonders , its about politics ( national, international, university politics too :) ) , its about people (races, culture , religion) , its about being a human ( accepting sexual differences , morales , values ) and what not!

She's got stories to share always . Once there was a resignation from the Chancellor of our university. I didnt understand the campus politics and the media reports on all these , and she was the one who enlightened me about the fact. And the thing was about misusing the power one is authorized , misusing the money and all those . Since then, believe it or not, i have begun to understand some of my university politics . i repeat , some .

She's an impressive personality. One of our talks i remember was about a professor who mistreated a young girl at her class. The girl was a graduate student but around my age .. and this lady must be of the age of the professor. The incident was something like : that girl spilled some drinks in the classroom floor, at which she suddenly went outside, grabbed a mop and started cleaning the floor. To the astonishment , the professor was rude on her and shouted " You should start a career on that ". The girl couldnt revolt , as of her maturity, as of her age .. and she ran away from the class. This lady was simply silent then .. but was not happy with the drama going on. Later , she was with me talking about the situation, and she questioned , if it would be wise to complain against the professor. Well , i am young too ;) .. but still , i agreed that she should talk to the lady who was embarrassed by the professor and talk to the professor directly about the behavior.

Some days later, she came to me ...and said that she actually went to the professor and explained why the thing he did on that class was wrong! To her dismay, the professor didnt quite respond to it . She couldnt simply stay there for long, so , she left. She even told the professors immediate supervisor , and found indifference there too. I was happy that at least , she let the professor know of the misbehavior. " That was an achievement " - i told her . of course , that was! I dont have that guts to talk for anyone if its not concerned to me anyways. I respect that lady's decision on that . No wonder , she is a personality to have some quality time with.

And , you might be wondering by now , what the title of this blog is ? This is one of the terms , that we recently discussed. She told me " you've got plenty admirers " .. And , she showed me girls who were passing ahead. She imitated how each girl wanted to catch my attention , or , how each girl wanted my attention on her. She categorised them and we had fun sampling every girls that pass by into one of these categories. ;) .. Lol , sometimes she even hid.. so that she could analyse things even better. LOL . i was laughing all the time. BODY LANGUAGE is what she was looking at , and she boasted " who knows better than me ". THESE GIRLS , GIRLS , GIRLS !!!

Indeed , TRUE. Your body doesn't know how to lie. Body Language is the " the nonverbal communication " . You might be scared to know that , people would judge your characteristics by your body language. That could give impressions to people you meet , that could prove a disaster too . Like , those girls .. one of the categories we were talking about was " look at that girl , she doesnt have a boyfriend and wants to grab your attention. She's simply so fat. " .. The other was " She thinks she looks beautiful with that hairdo , and she thinks every guy is just ready for a chase " .. lol .. It might sound a bit nosy that we were trying to judge a book by its cover , but who cares !!! at the end of the day , we were just having some fun . We admitted that later. :)

First Time Caller!!!

Splendid movie. I liked the perfect blend of emotions along with the humor. Well , i would give an A for the movie , the theme , the presentation. :) ..

Btw, i am here with the movie in this blog , cos , its a free streamable movie. Watch it from
http://www.cinemanow.com/TitleDetail.aspx?TitleID=15922&grpId=1003
(dont know however how long the movie lasts for free or if its forever ).

ELF - a love story

* Removin' this post , to respect my anonymity! lol! :) sorry.