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!
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
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 !
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 !
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
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 ]
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 ]
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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.
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.
Monday, June 04, 2007
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 ?
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Life is full of options; yet you cannot choose!
OK.
Tell you what!
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.
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?
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).
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 :PThe 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.
Read this : http://www.ketv.com/news/13360758/detail.html
Man, am i getting some ideas ? ;)
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?
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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 ?
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.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
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
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
Sunday, May 06, 2007
"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!
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!
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!
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 !
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?
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!
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