I know that 2009 is quite far away, but for students who fall under VTU, well it seems like even days like January 1st don’t feel special. My exams are starting from December 19th and extend to January 1st.

Wrapped up my Playstation, now trying to shutdown my laptop. Let’s see how far I am able to reach the shutdown button…

You can’t expect quality from the staff, as they opt to choose this job because they have (maybe) no other vacancy.

I pondered upon this fact (told to me by my uncle), that we have no hesitation in paying extra in the mall for which we receive this kind of service and we bargain like a gladiator in a battle with the auto-driver for few bucks. Silly ain’t it?

These days I have been observing the kids in my apartment, and my college friends. I categorize them in Generation 3. Their primary language is English. I am going to be a little blunt here by saying, no matter they want to or not, their parents too (who again want to or not), speak in English. Forced by the community? Maybe!
Their sentances like, “You have that book no?”, “You mad huh?”. Use of words like “Da”, which means “Dude” in Tamil/Kannada. Using words like “Guys” even for girls, when there is already “Gals”. Using “Dude” instead of “Dudette”.

Trying to speak in English has made others tag them “South Indians”, and this is precisely why people make fun of us.

Many a times, I have been called “Uncle” by these kids, why? Because there is no such word as “Bhaiyya” or “Anna”. They can’t call me “Bro” or “Dude” because they don’t know me well, also they use them only with those people who are close to them and are of same age.

Personally speaking, I am an extrovert with these kids, but how should I behave when I meet elder people or my classmates?

1) In which language should I speak? English or their mother-tongue? Speaking English will make them feel as I am trying to act smart (YES! Atleast that’s what I feel when someone is speaking with me even after knowing that we both know our mother-tongue very well).

2) Should I take what is offered to me in the first place itself, or should I wait for the next turn?

As Willy Shakey once wrote for Hamlet, “To be or not to be, that is the question;” Where I fall, is still a jigsaw to me.

(I am working on the follow-up article which is based on the use of English by people here)

Quite happy and especially because this was my costliest purchase and I desperately wanted it for a long time.

GTA IV

1.You don’t know how to write in proper English. You use “ma” instead of “my”, “watevea” instead of “whatever” or “heLLo” instead of “Hello”. You put extra letters to a word. For example; “LiFE3” in lieu of “Life”. You prefer to use sms language on forums. Moreover, you think that it’s cool to write like this.

2.While browsing these sites, you send friend requests to girls and continuously check out their profiles. If they don’t accept it then also you keep on sending requests.

3.You try to use “Unlock Photo Albums Scripts” on the profiles of girls or your ex-lovers.

4.You just can’t complete your sentence without typing “Lolz”.

5.You send forward messages to your friends as scraps. For example; “Your mother will die if u don’t forward it to 10 people”, “I’ll sleep with your girlfriend if you don’t send it to 100 people”.

6.You’ve 200+ friends on Orkut but you don’t know half of them. Moreover, you don’t even talk to them. This is because you think that having 200+ friends makes you popular.

7.You have a fake profile to spy on your ex- girlfriend/ boyfriend.

8.You’re using a picture of Hannah Montana/Hilary Duff as your profile picture.

9.You don’t know your neighbor but you know about the latest games on Myspace.

10.You fight with people in communities and forums while in real life you don’t have the guts to say anything.

11.In real life, you say “LOL” in place of laughing.

12.After reading this, you are totally pissed off at me and now you’re going to the comment box to abuse me.

13.You copy this whole guide and forward it to your friends through email or post it on social networking websites or internet forums.

Well, only the 13th point is apt on me. How many are true on your side?

Long ago, there used to be an image circulating in forwarded mails stating the facts which The Sultan can do. Well, here are some new facts which were recently discovered :

1. Rajnikant makes onions cry
2. Rajnikant can delete the Recycle Bin.
3. Ghosts are actually caused by Rajnikant killing people faster than Death can process them.
4. Rajnikant can build a snowman….. out of rain.
5. Rajnikant can strangle you with a cordless phone.
6. Rajnikant can drown a fish.
7. When Rajnikant enters a room, he doesn’t turn the lights on, he turns the dark off.
8. When Rajnikant looks in a mirror the mirror shatters, because not even glass is stupid enough to get in between Rajnikant and Rajnikant.
9. Brett Favre can throw a football over 50 yards.
   Rajnikant can throw Brett Favre even further.
10. The last digit of pi is Rajnikant. He is the end of all things.
11. Rajnikant does not know where you live, but he knows where you will die.
12. Bullets dodge Rajnikant.
13. A Handicap parking sign does not signify that this spot is for handicapped people. It is actually in fact a warning, that the spot belongs to Rajnikant and that you will be handicapped if you park there.
14. Rajnikant’s calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd, no one fools Rajnikant.
15. If you spell Rajnikant wrong on Google it doesn’t say, “Did you mean Rajnikant?” It simply replies, “Run while you still have the chance.”
16. Rajnikant can do a wheelie on a unicycle.
17. Once a cobra bit Rajnikant’ leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.
18. When Rajnikant gives you the finger, he’s telling you how many seconds you have left to live.
19. Rajnikant can kill two stones with one bird.
20. Rajnikant was once on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and was the first to spin. The next 29 minutes of the show consisted of everyone standing around awkwardly, waiting for the wheel to stop.
21. Leading hand sanitizers claim they can kill 99.9 percent of germs. Rajnikant can kill 100 percent of whatever he wants.
22. There is no such thing as global warming. Rajnikant was cold, so he turned the sun up.
23. Rajnikant can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.
24. Rajnikant has a deep and abiding respect for human life… unless it gets in his way.
25. It takes Rajnikant 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.
26. Rajnikant once shot down a German fighter plane with his finger, by yelling, “Bang!”
27. In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Rajnikant could use to kill you, including the room itself.
28. Behind every successful man, there is a woman. Behind every dead man, there is Rajnikant.
29. Rajnikant destroyed the periodic table, because Rajnikant only recognizes the element of surprise.
30. Rajnikant got his drivers license at the age of 16 Seconds.
31. With the rising cost of gasoline, Rajnikant is beginning to worry about his drinking habit.
32. The square root of Rajnikant is pain. Do not try to square Rajnikant, the result is death.
33. When you say “no one’s perfect”, Rajnikant takes this as a personal insult.
34. There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Rajnikant has allowed to live.
35. Outer space exists because it’s afraid to be on the same planet with Rajnikant.

Rajnikant’s hand is the only hand that can beat a Royal Flush.

Rajnikant doesn’t wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.

Rajnikant gave Mona Lisa that smile.

Rajnikant can slam a revolving door.

Rajnikant does not get frostbite. Rajnikant bites frost.

Remember the Soviet Union? They decided to quit after watching a Padayappa on Satellite TV

There are no races, only countries of people Rajnikant has beaten to different shades of black and blue.

Rajnikant’s house has no doors, only walls that he walks through.

Rajnikant doesn’t actually write books, the words assemble themselves out of fear.

Rajnikant can divide by zero.

Newton’s Third Law is wrong: Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction,
there is no force equal in reaction to a Rajnikant turnaround kick.

When taking the GRE, write “Rajnikant” for every answer. You will score over 1600.

Rajnikant invented black. In fact, he invented the entire spectrum of visible light. Except pink. Tom Cruise
invented pink.

In the beginning there was nothing…then Rajnikant kicked that nothing in the face and said “Get a job”. That
is the story of the universe.

Rajnikant has 12 moons. One of those moons is the Earth.

Rajnikant grinds his coffee with his teeth and boils the water with his own rage.

Archeologists unearthed an old English dictionary dating back to the year 1236. It defined “victim” as “one
who has encountered Rajnikant”

Rajnikant ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got one.

If you Google search “Rajnikant getting his ass kicked” you will generate zero results. It just doesn’t happen.
It shows now 400+ results. Thanks to these facts.

Rajnikant can drink an entire gallon of milk in thirty-seven seconds.

Rajnikant doesn’t bowl strikes, he just knocks down one pin and the other nine faint.

There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Rajnikant lives in Chennai.

Rajnikant once ate an entire bottle of sleeping pills. They made him blink.

James Cameron wanted Rajnikant to play the Terminator. However, upon reflection, he realized that would have turned his movie into a documentary, so he went with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Thousands of years ago Rajnikant came across a bear. It was so terrified that it fled north into the arctic. It was also so terrified that all of its decedents now have white hair.

Long live the star!!

Here are some of the best quotes from three of the most influential people in the history of operating systems: Steve Jobs (Apple), Linus Torvalds (Linux) and Bill Gates (Microsoft).

Some of these quotes may surprise you, especially the older ones.

Steve Jobs

Let’s start with the man who co-founded Apple in 1976, left the company in 1985, then came back and saved the day in 1997.

1991:

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

1994, while he was obviously not working at Apple:

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth — and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

1996, on Bill Gates:

I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

1997, on Apple products:

The products suck! There’s no sex in them anymore!

2003, a modest comment on the iPod and iTunes:

It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can’t overestimate it!

2006, on Microsoft:

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

2007, on his $1 annual salary:

I make fifty cents for showing up … and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

Bill Gates

Now on to the man who co-founded Microsoft in 1975 and later became the richest man in the world.

1980:

There’s nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

1983:

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

1984:

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

1987:

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

1991:

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

1993:

The Internet? We are not interested in it.

1995:

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

1996, on the oft-quoted “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”

I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time… I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough.

1998:

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don’t evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, ‘how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?’

1998, memo to the Office product group:

One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other people’s browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.

2001:

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.

2004:

Spam will be a thing of the past in two years’ time.

Linus Torvalds

Finally, the man who in 1991 started to work on what would become Linux.

1991:

I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

1996:

Some people have told me they don’t think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They’d be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

1998:

My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.

2001:

Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

2003:

Really, I’m not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

2006:

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

2006:

Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I’m flexible, and not black-and-white.)

2007:

I have an ego the size of a small planet.

2008:

Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can’t stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

Sources:

Images from Wikimedia Commons: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Linus Torvalds.

Quotes found on Wikiquote.org.
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