Yuvraaj

I happened to watch Yuvraaj yesterday (out of boredom and no other handy choice) and it looked like the movie has been shot just because they had to. It seemed as if towards the end, the director  got bored of directing the movie, so ended up with the abrupt hospital scene and ended it right there. Not the sorts of things Mukta arts produced in the Past.

Sotd

बिछड़ गया हर साथी देकर
पल दो पल का साथ
किसको फुर्सत है जो थामे
दीवानों का हाथ
हमको अपना साया तक
अक्सर बेगार मिला …

It just doesn’t work!

What do you do when you feel very very tired, very sleepy and have some important task at hand? Especially when the known solution - Caffeine doesn’t work?

1 Ltr of juice and coffee later, it still doesn’t help much. I got to find new alternatives to stay awake. The jaagrans have started, and exams are nowhere in sight.

Lost in transit

Dear Lazyweb,

With all the idiots that I end up talking to, and all of them giving me different answers, I resort to you, O Lazyweb!

Q: Do I need a transit visa?

I’m travelling on a French type D visa, to Nice via London Heathrow. The time between the two BA flights (BOM-LHR and LHR-NCE) is 2h 40 mins. I don’t change airports, but I do change terminals and go from t5 to t1.

Quite a few people commented that I don’t need a transit visa, then some said I do. If you do know a definite answer to this, please leave a comment. You could also point me to some phone / email id that you think might help. Any help is appreciated!

Choice of words

can be as naive as “forgot to put the brackets” to as buzzy as “left the scope undefinied”.

Reluctance

And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,

No longer blown hither and thither;

The last lone aster is gone;

The flowers of the witch hazel wither;

The heart is still aching to seek,

But the feet question “Whither?”

Ah, when to the heart of man

Was it ever less than a treason

To go with the drift of things,

To yield with a grace to reason,

And bow and accept the end

Of a love or a season?

I wish

I wish I was as disciplined as I was in school.

Lots of things

  • The talks at Lala lajpatrai college went well.
  • Spent more time travelling on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway (and the  Chembur-Sion-VileParle Mumbai darshan trip that comes free with it) than attending talks at Gnunify’08 at Pune. Reached just-in-time for the linuxchix-india talk+BoF.
  • Finally got a chance to be at the Kala Ghoda Arts festival this year.
  • Had awesome fun at the Freemap India workshop in Mumbai. (This calls for a separate entry)

Words

A new word that I came across today:

SNAFU: Situation Normal, All Fscked Up.

:)

P.S. I think I need to re-read the jargon.

Qotd

Clementine: This is it, Joel. It’s going to be gone soon.
Joel: I know.
Clementine: What do we do?
Joel: Enjoy it.