2.00AM Dancing!

Everyday, when it appears to me that I am close the climax of my quest for unconventional freedom, I go another step further. And the last step was pretty much fun.

Last night, I was trying to study late at night; the “environment and ecology” subject. The earphones were plugged in, I was listening to some dance music. The track was very trancy. After a few mins, I considered to go to bed. Suddenly, I stopped before the mirror in my bedroom. I rarely stand before a mirror, except while shaving. I stood and I looked at me. Slowly, my body started moving unconsciously, with the music. I turned off the light, realising if I get caught in the state, I will be ridiculed. Then I started to dance. It was 2AM. I could feel the adrenaline, the joy. I was getting showered by the streetshine (The light from the street lights), I could see my shadow on the wall. I was not really dancing, as it is an art. I was moving with the music, reproducing the sound with my body.

I continued until 3.16, when I realized that my body could take no more. I am not a fit guy, so dancing with high tempo music was pretty hard on me. I want to bed, sleepy.

One thing that occured to me while I was dancing is that I was truely growing up, and I was growing up the colourful way I wanted. I will attain the rank of ‘chunin’ (See Naruto) real soon.

Spammer

I am pretty much always online while I am doing something in my PC. Some guy just started to spam me, started to pour some *.bat files onto my system. And then, I just felt him having fun. I really don’t like these kinda guys, who really don’t have anything to do, except spam.

I was beaten suddenly, by this n00b. That file he said, helped him to hack my PC. I didn’t quite realise that it is not possible that way. I finally met my match in technology I think. My peer doesn’t really have much experience with science as I do. But this guy made me to rethink that there are guys that easily beat me, when I comes to technology.

I have to go a long way, to achieve such a perfection.

Coding!

I have been far from coding for a few days, and now I am returning to Coding. This time with new vigour. In my orkut profile, I did put that I am feeling “ubernerdy”. I am feeling the energy to do hard mind numbing hard work of intellect. Anything it may be. And hard edge coding may be the only thing that can vent my energy. I am looking into Ruby for a few days, I think I should learn Ruby as fast as I can. Python is in my shelf, already ready to be deployed. I never got into some real project, I think I should do it now!

I was also looking into the classical C++. Java is not in my choice list, it needs a lot of improvement I think. C++, Python and Ruby is in my choice list for now.

I love to Code!

Silicon Valley Style!

The new telecast in Discovery channel, called Download: The true stroy of the internet, shows something that everyone is ought to know. Some great inspiration for future ideas. I really appreciate that telecast. As I am a tech geek, I really like to obeserve technology and it’s impact on the society. And now I am in engineering college, I can see the impact a bit more clearly that before.

I think I know what is means to be a technologist, and what a few rag-tag bunch of programmers can do. The first day was about Browsers and the second day was about search engine. And I cannot wait for the third day!

I am a technology enthusiast and a ameature programmer, and the telecast is really enjoyable. A must see!

Sony Ericsson W350i

I wanted a cellphone, and after I a lot of research, I settled with NOKIA 3120. But unfortunately while I was in the shop, the whole thing turned to Sony Ericsson W350i.

I bought the phone. It is about five days I am with my new W350i. It is performing great.

The WALKMAN player: Awesome! Has a lot of options, almost like Windows Media Player. It is a breeze to browse through music. It comes with a Sony Bass Reflex Headphones, which sounds great also.

The Bluetooth system is pretty fast. I hooked it up with a friend’s W700i, and tested it. It performed fine!

The Camera according to me is not up to the mark. But I am not really bothered about that as I don’t really need a cellphone cam.

The Net browser is even better, fast and sleek.

And for now ‘I love my music!’

Delivery

OLPC

“The OLPC Foundation’s mission is to stimulate local grassroots initiatives designed to enhance and sustain over time the effectiveness of laptops as learning tools for children living in lesser-developed countries.” – The OLPC website.

OLCP stands for One Laptop per Child.

This may not be a very interesting mission, lots of people will say, “Give them food, shelter and education, why Laptop?”. Being a guy who saw the last Pentium leap in Electronics and Digital Communication and Media as a child, I do feel the impact of such a thing. The marvel of technology should be available for all the human beings living in this world. You can read this article “A OLPC story in Khairat“.

You can also check the OLPC website, and what actually is the XO-1.

Just imagine; when a child turns his XO-1 on, and sees that his friends in the neighbourhood is playing a multiplayer game after dinner, he joins them. I am a casual gamer myself, and like to play online a lot, if I have fun, children would have more fun, wirelessly.

Being a half rural guy, I know the fun of being connected even in bed with friends. We do have chats in Shop, Clubs, Houses. But late at night, while you are about to leave study, your friend just rings you up, “What are you doing? Buddy!”, the joy that you have while being connected to others is just great. I got my hands on a cell phone pretty late, thus I do have a passion for connectedness. And imagine a village in India, where children doesn’t have cellphones, are getting connected while studing, and chatting from there homes. Awesome!

New and free!

She was asking her name, the name of the girl I liked. But I didn’t have the courage to tell her that it was she. When we both were running out of time, and our keyboards were becoming tired, I threw out something. I told that it was she. I could see her uneasiness flowing through some intricate keystrokes to my PC monitor. The Google Talk terminal made me feel that I didn’t make a good impression on her. And last night I too felt uneasy that I told her something that was a kind of social stigma. But after three years, I shot in a fragile moment.

But I never thought that the single confession would make me so light. I felt like new, like reinstalling my mind. I felt so much confidence today that I wanted to struggle in local trains to go to college, then I did all the physics stuff in college, so easily that it felt God, and even when returning to home, I felt so much energy that I could play a game of football. This is time I should return to science.

I know with such a confession, there is also a faint probability that she might not talk to me anymore, or she might take it lightly (as I expect). But it is now out of my hands. I know society itself is a so complex system that these light stuff can become complex. And that really makes me interested in such sciences a lot.

After three years of silence, I am finally free.

She told me that I was a fantasy dweller, and now I know that she was right. In my eighteen years of life, I never felt so light, so free. All that fantasy I had, was all an indulgence of pseudo happiness. Now I am happy that I have that rare non-physical energy, that would make me follow my passion and that energy is making me a man by the moment.

Lastly the thing I learned from this incident, I must note, is that we all have passions and remains a dream, but dreaming is nothing, will is everything. She was so right, I feel proud of her!