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FYJC Admissions

Currently, there has been a controversy over the admission process of first year Junior colleges in Maharashtra. This year the S. S. C. results were very good, much better than the previous years. More people passed, but the number of seats didn't increase with the same pace. Hence, the obvious question of admission. The state came up with 2 solutions. One with a district quota of 70 per cent which I think was totally foolish. If there are not enough seats to accommodate all the students then what's the point of reserving seats for locals. And how will you break the regions? Who are locals and who are outsiders? The second one, which I thought was a good solution, used percentile system to normalize scores of students of all three boards( SSC., ICSE and CBSE). The percentile will be calculated by finding your score with respect to the average score of top ten students of that board. It has been challenged in the courts. Personally, I thought it was a good move by state be...

Working from home

Ohhh, man... Working from home can be a real pain!! I have been working like that for last 2 days. And its pretty boring... Well, of course you dont have your boss sitting next to you, but then you dont have all your PJ master friends. I am very careful about my internet usage, so when I my single "left arrow" after doing ssh brings some bytes to my PC, it feels really dizzy :| I got to use my ubuntu for office work!!! but the data resides on my office CPU so its not at all goody goody. Last but not least... I can blog any time :)

Naruto

Today, I will tell you about the plot of serial along with introduction to its main character. The story begins with the village Konohagakure where the Nine Tailed Fox attacks. This powerful beast is subdued by the Fourth Hokage, is captured and sealed in a new born baby. This baby is Naruto. Even though the beast is sealed inside the boy, people are scared that the beast might resurface from the boy and get back at them. Hence, everyone in the village mistreats Naruto during his childhood. This induces a great desire in Naruto to become the greatest Ninja ever and also to become a Hokage, some day. And "Naruto" the serial, is about his journey to be the greatest Ninja of all time. Of course, that doesnt mean our friend Naruto is a legend from childhood. He is a prankster. Faliing the Ninja exams thrice in a row. But he is brave and can do anything for his friends. Most of the times I feel anoyed because of his overconfidence and idiotic behaviour(Remember...

Quote

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." - Andrew S. Tanenbaum(My Favorite Author)

Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na...

After a very long time I had gone for a movie with so many School friends. We were 12 people with 9 boys and 3 gals. It was a nice, refreshing experience to be with all of them again. We were late into the theater because of Viraj who had an Audit in his branch. Even getting to our seats was an adventure, with people sitting in between and then again shifting since it was impossible to pass to the next seat. Now, about the movie. Well, to be honest, I liked it. I like such romantic movies with humor. The young brigade in the film have done a great job. One more thing about the film is focus on the other friends of Jai and Aditi. I liked the way they were given importance as opposed to other movies where the lead characters take away all the camera space. I ll discuss about the plot in my next post from some one else' s point of view. But the biggest news of the day for me, came after the movie. To give you some background, I was sitting next to Kiran, then, Sus...

PJ at their best

Recently I had for weekend trip along with my school friends. These are some of the best PJs which we had during the picnic. Most of them are in Marathi, so you might have to know Marathi to understand them. Jeetu showed me this SMS Ek mulga, eka mulila mithi madhye gheto aani vichar karto chala hiche vyakaran tapasu. toh bolato, "sang priye, mithitala me pahila ki dusra???" mulgi bolte. "tisra" ------------------------------------ While having dinner in d night... Viraj(looking at the Naan): chaan ahet re Susmit: nahi re, naan ahet ------------------------------------ Punyala jatana Dnyanesh mhanala ki apan sagle touchmadhe asto ani to nasto. Asa mhatlyavar nik ani baki saglyanni ekmekanna touch kela ;) ------------------------------------ Nik brush karat hota sunday morning... Susmit: "tuza zala ki" sang Nik: "tuza zala ki" :( ------------------------------------ Snake parkmadhye battery photo kadhat hota. Tyane ek kadhla.. pan mhanala ajun ek...

Maths 99

After a really long time, I am wearing the watch given by Prasanna Pandit to me. Its been five years since he gave me this watch, but I have worn it hardly 6-7 times. When I walking towards office, I just remembered one funny incident involving Prasanna and myself. I would like to share it with you all. It was the day of HSC results. I had returned home, and was getting lots of congratulatory calls. At around 7 o clock, I got a more of such calls. The guy on the other side was talking in Marathi. Well, I thought he was one of my father's friends. He asked me my Maths mark which I told him to be 99. He congratulated me. Then he asked me my overall marks. I said, "570 out of 600". I was really not able to make out who the person was. So finally, I asked him that I didn't recognize his voice and wanted to know who he was. It was none other than Prasanna Sir. He was wondering why I had not called him up when most of the other guys had told him their marks. I...

Being a Gnome Fan

I have turned into a big fan of Gnome. I am the only one in my office who is using gnome. Every one else uses KDE. The user interface of KDE really sucks man. Gnome is more closer to Windows in terms of user experience. Though many of the KDE apps are more advanced than their counter parts in gnome, I still feel that Gnome has enough functinalities to be able fulfill my requirement. After the launch of Banshee I have stopped using Amarok. Not that it is better than Amarok, but its certainly better than that Rhythmbox. Sexiest thing about Gnome is its Termianl. I just hated using Konsole in my early days in office, I wanted Gnome Terminal. Its another story how I got Gnom installed on my system I wanted to enable compiz on my PC which has an old motherboard with no AGP. It broke down KDE and I could use my desktop GUI. So finally I had to call Chandan and installed Gnome. Well, not that I learned from this mistake. I faced the same problem in Gnome also when enabled XGL. Thankf...