my (short term?) laptop
well, last week I got a new laptop from my company. when they first told us of its specs, I thought it was a cheap crap, and good for nothing. but after having it, i feel its not all that bad. in fact its pretty good! [particularly after seeing Napster use a Dell in The Italian Job :)) ] its a Dell Latitude D505. has a 1.8GHz Pentium Mobile, 512MB RAM and a 40G HD. comes with 3 n/w interfaces! one is the regular one. one is IEEE 1394 (FireWire) and the other is Wireless. all Intel chipset, onboard things. tho I had to try a little hard to convince my Whoppix that there's a wireless interface ;)
now that I heard I can no more use this laptop coz I'm movin to client side and I'm not allowed to connect my 'personal' machine to client network. yea, I agree. they're stupid. if I really wanna steal, I can do it anyway, with or without a laptop, and irrespective of the monitors they use. I hate these people when they get paranoid and do things which just don't make sense!
fine.. now that I might have to gie back my laptop (coz I can't use it anyway), I thought of listing out the first things I did on this laptop :)

First song played: Eiffel65 - I'm Blue
First movie played: X-Files
First game installed: Painkiller
First game that failed to run: Painkiller ;)
First game to successfully run: UT2004 (runs pretty smooth)
First linux distro installed: Yoper
First site visited: yahoomail/gmail/orkut
First application (I) installed: IDA Pro 4.8 (or rather copied and ran)
First application to run: Lotus Notes (bad!) / WMP


(I'll add others as and when I remember) ;)

a little navodaya nostalgia
manju's mail on the teacher's day brings back the old memories. all the fun we had, all the stupid stunts we used to do, all the friends, all the enemies, all the teachers ... ah! it was so good... wish I could live that life again

I remember I took rampa's role on teacher's day (being his pet). well, I don't seem to remember his actual name now. but that's what he was called ;) I took the physics class for the XI std guys.. don't remember exactly what. but it had something to do with some springs.. or rather ropes...

it was my first time taking a class.. (so was it for everyone else). if it were some other time, I'd have been very nervous. but moving around the stage everyday during assembly or functions had filled in a little courage in me to face the people.. (yeah. the 'mic set guys' - me, sidda and EP being the third one usually, tho others used to butt in at times ;) )

oh yeah! I remember what I taught them, or rather thought I did ;) it was some part of "Waves and something I can't remember" well, I never studied in XI std. so I don't remember the chapter name. and the funny thing was I was gonna teach them something I've never learned myself! I thought of making the class a little interesting by demonstrating the wave transmission with the ropes example that was there in the book. But couldn't get the proper rope and the class ended up being just some boring mathematics.

I remember that was when I actually understood functions. I never understood what it exactly means by saying something is a function of something. i.e. I never really understood what does it mean by f(x). it was for taking this class that I first attempted to understand it! well, it was good understanding it and explaining all the mathematics to the class.

everything went fine, I came out of the class. I had only one period to take coz I said I become nervous on stage.. (tho they were my juniors) so manja assigned only 1 period for me. someone else took Physics for other classes. finally I asked one of the XI guys (divyananda perhaps) how did he like the class. he said the class was very good. well, I myself never thought it was good coz I dint do the demo with ropes. but well, all is well that ends well isn't it? so I thought its okay id he says he liked it. but well, he continued to say, many of us dint understand much of what you taught, coz the relevant basics haven't been covered in any of the prev classes. uh! what?! i should've asked one of them before I chose a topic to teach. I just chose something I found interesting at that time. I felt so stupid..

all the memories of everyone.. all the events that happened... now it makes me laugh. sometimes I was so stupid! and how we fought over the 'mic set'.

though I always used to do bad comments on navodaya, till about my X std, I like the place. though I never really realized it while I was there, it's a great place to be. (particularly if you become a pet of some teachers ;) )
it is the place that has made me, and all of us who were there, the people who we are now..

should definitely make time to attend the alumni this time..